A Midsummer Night's Dream (eBook, PDF)

A critical guide
Redaktion: Buccola, Regina

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, and film versions as well as opera and ballet. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441179791
• Artikelnr.: 40776426

Autorenporträt

Regina Buccola is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Language at Roosevelt University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Introduction
Timeline
Introduction, Regina Buccola (Roosevelt University, USA) 
1. The Critical Backstory, Dorothea Kehler (San Diego State University,
USA) 
2. Performance History, Jeremy Lopez (University of Toronto, CA)
3. The State of the Art - Current Critical Research, Tripthi Pillai (Loyola
University, USA)
4. New Directions: Soundings in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom Clayton
(University of Minnesota, USA)
5. New Directions: The Weaver's Dream - Mnemonic scripts and Memorial
texts, Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College, USA)
6. New Directions: Spirits of Another Sort: Constructing Shakespeare's
Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Matthew Woodcock (UEA, UK) 
7. New Directions: Shakespeare and the Fairy King: Re-viewing the Cultural
and Political Contexts of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Annaliese
Connolly (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Resources, Adrienne L. Eastwood (San Jose State University, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index