Author : Kasey Michaels
Publisher : HQN Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373776101
"USA Today"-bestselling author Michaels returns with the second book in her sparkling new Blackthorn Brothers historical series, about three bad boys and the only women who can tame them. Original.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1734
Category : English drama (Comedy)
ISBN :
National Sylvan Theatre, Washington Monument grounds, The Community Center and Playgrounds Department and the Office of National Capital Parks present the ninth summer festival program of the 1941 season, the Washington Players in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," produced by Bess Davis Schreiner, directed by Denis E. Connell, the music by Mendelssohn is played by the Washington Civic Orchestra conducted by Jean Manganaro, the setting and lights Harold Snyder, costumes Mary Davis.
Author : Keith Linley
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783085568
Everything you need to know about the cultural contexts of 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'. Is this just a light-hearted romp or is Shakespeare trying to make serious points about courtship, love, marriage and human folly? This book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that an Elizabethan audience would have brought to interpreting the play. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized conduct, about the magic and madness of love and attraction? Historical, literary, political, sociological backgrounds are explained within the biblical-moral matrices by which the play would have been judged. This book links real life in the late 1590s to the world on the stage. Discover the orthodox beliefs people held about religion. Meet the Devil, Sin and Death. Learn about the social hierarchy, gender relationships, court corruption, class tensions, the literary profile of the time, attitudes to comedy – and all the subversions, transgressions, and oppositions that made the play a hilarious farce but also an unsettling picture of a world so close to disaster.
Author : Chris Adrian
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429961007
Acclaimed as a "gifted, courageous writer"(The New York Times), Chris Adrian brings all his extraordinary talents to bear in The Great Night—a brilliant and mesmerizing retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happening in the faerie kingdom: in a fit of sadness over the end of her marriage, which broke up in the wake of the death of her adopted son, Titania has set loose an ancient menace, and the chaos that ensues will threaten the lives of immortals and mortals alike. Selected by The New Yorker as one the best young writers in America, Adrian has created a singularly playful, heartbreaking, and humorous novel—a story that charts the borders between reality and dreams, love and magic, and mortality and immortality.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789361449710
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Author : Emile Benoit
Publisher : Emile Benoit
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1609104668
The full length play, A Midsummer Night's Hangover, as well as the shorter one act entitled Heaven, are both hilarious romps through the absurdity of relationships - familial, platonic, romantic, and divine. In Midsummer, two young lovers must overcome the religious rigidity of the girl's father in order to be together. Inevitably, they must escape to the woods, fake their own deaths, and summon the devil himself for assistance. Midsummer is a darkly comic world of magical realism inhabited by lonely dreamers, vengeful lovers, rabid feminists, assorted potions, and a statue that springs to life. As a compliment to this full length play, Heaven is a comedic one act that imagines a crisis in heaven wherein God Himself is suffering from a creative block and must assemble the great artists of Hell to provide inspiration. What ensues is a gentle and quirky satire of religion, love, and friendship.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198129289
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays, and certainly the one that children are likely to encounter first; its mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies meeting in a wood outside Athens has a magic of its own. Simple and engaging on the surface, it isnonetheless a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. The fact that it is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays not to draw on a narrative source suggests the degree to which it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns.In his Introduction, defining the play in both the literary and theatrical traditions to which it belongs, Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows in the strange but enchanting amalgam hemakes of them. Both here and in the detailed commentary he draws freely upon the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
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Author : Gary Wiener
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0737763876
This informative volume explores William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream through the lens of sexuality. The book examines Shakespeare's life and influences and offers readers a series of essays for consideration on topics related to sexuality, such as the notions of the war between the sexes, taboo sexuality, and the marginalization of women's sexuality. The text also offers readers contemporary perspectives on topics related to sexuality, such as adolescent sexuality, the categorizing of people into sexual classifications, and sex education.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199535868
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. In the introduction to this edition, Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, and to Shakespeare's construction of a world of night and shadows. Both here and in his commentary he explores the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.
