A Midsummer Night's Dream: A critical guide

by Regina Buccola (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847061355
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/08/2010
Series:	Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Series Introduction TimelineIntroduction, 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 ContributorsIndex

Editorial Reviews

"In her excellent, comprehensive introduction to this exciting new collection of essays, Regina Buccola rightly states that 'the authors gathered here have offered new visions of [A Midsummer Night's] Dream on the page and on the stage.' Although several books and collections on the Dream have appeared over the years that help introduce students and teachers to various critical approaches making this play more thoroughly enjoyable as well as accessible, Buccola's collection updates and carries the process considerably further; hence, the book is an indispensable guide to anyone interested in plumbing deeper the rich depths of Shakespeare's comedy."
- Jay Halio, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Delaware, USA

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