A Midsummer Night's Dream / As You Like It / Twelfth Night / The Tempest
By: by William Shakespeare ; Cambridge text and glossaries, complete and unabridged ; edited by William Aldis Wright ; introductions by Mark Van Doren ; synopses by J. Walker McSpadden ; illustrations by Frederick E. Banberry ; designed by Maxwell Marxe
Contributors: Wright, William Aldis, 1831-1914, editor
Edition: Cardinal edition, third printing
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1952-05
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 372
Copyright date: 1948
Subjects: Comedies; Humorous plays
Description: THESE FOUR great comedies bring you William Shakespeare in* delightful, humorous vein. He .achieves his greatest merriment in the mistaken identities of As You Like It, the rollicking characters of Puck and Bottom in A Midsummer-Night's Dream, the mischievous mixing of sexes in Twelfth Night, and the artful magic of Prospero in The Tempest. The Cambridge text has been used in this CARDINAL edition, complete and- unexpurgated. J. Walker McSpadden has contributed a résumé of each plot. Glossaries have been provided to explain unusual words. The cast of characters of each play is illustrated by Frederick E. Banbery.

Each of these plays is prefaced with an introduction by Mark Van Doren. This fine critic's appreciation of the separate plays will add immeasurably to the reader's enjoyment and understanding of William Shakespeare.
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Table of contents: title: A Midsummer night's dream.; title: As you like it.; title: Twelfth night.; label: The Tempest.