A Midsummer Night's Dream

By (author) Shakespeare, William; Edited by Mowat, Barbara a; Edited by Werstine Paul
Image for A Midsummer Night's Dream Click to enlarge A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (Author) Edited by:Dr.Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine Series:Folger Shakespeare Library Format:Paperback 304 pages Publisher:Simon & Schuster Imprint:Simon & Schuster ISBN:9781501146213 Published:12 Jul 2016 Classifications:Shakespeare plays Weight:354g Dimensions:138 x 211 x 19 (mm) Language:English Country of Origin:GB Tariff Codes:49019900 For sale in: Lebanon, Germany, France, Andorra, United Arab Emirates, (See full list) Other Formats Paperback / softback from £1.94 Hardback from £4.00 Description The authoritative edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus's Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couplesbut not before they form first one love triangle, and then another. Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or ';puck,' Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of ';Pyramus and Thisbe.'