William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Edition: New ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781604138177
Other titles: Midsummer night's dream
Description: "A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's best-loved works, as popular onstage as it is in the classroom. The enchanted forest in which most of the action takes place proves to be the ideal setting for a comedy exploring the intersection of reality and illusion, love and desire. This...new literary reference, introduced by esteemed scholar Harold Bloom, presents a selection of the best contemporary criticism of the play, in addition to a bibliography, index, and chronology of Shakespeare's life."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bottom's one-man show / René Girard; title: The changeling in a dream / William W. E. Slights; title: Nightingales that roar : the language of A midsummer night's dream / Jay L. Halio; title: A midsummer night's dream : anamorphism and Theseus' dream / James L. Calderwood; title: A midsummer night's dream as epithalamium / David Wiles; title: Translations in A midsummer night's dream / Stanley Wells; title: A midsummer night's dream / W.H. Auden; title: Why A midsummer night's dream? / Kenneth Burke; title: "The story shall be changed" : the fairy feminism of A midsummer night's dream / Regina Buccola.