num_pages: 346
description: This edition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts, including facsimiles of period documents, conduct literature, county records, reports of court entertainments, and Queen Elizabeth's speeches, contextualize the play's treatment of popular and royal festivity, communities of women (including Amazons, gossips, and nuns), marriage expectations, and the supernatural.
language: English
title: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Texts and Contexts
titlecomplete: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Texts and Contexts (Bedford Shakespeare)
characters: Hermia, Nick Bottom, Titania, Hippolyta, Tom Snout, Francis Flute (Shakespeare), Hermia (Shakespeare), Theseus (mythology), Puck, Oberon, Philostrate, Moth, Peter Quince, Helena (Shakespeare), Robin Starveling, Egeus, Lysander (Shakespeare), Mustardseed, Peaseblossom, Demetrius, Snug, Cobweb
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Plays, Theatre, Fiction, Poetry, Read For School, Fantasy, Romance
ratings_count: 525489
places: Atenas
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan