A Midsummer Night's Dream (English French Edition Illustrated)


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The play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistant to her father Egeus' demand that she wed Demetrius, whom he has arranged for her to marry. Helena meanwhile pines unrequitedly for Demetrius. Enraged, Egeus invokes an ancient Athenian law before Duke Theseus, whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), est consid�r� comme l'un des plus grands po�tes, dramaturges et �crivains de la culture anglaise. Il est r�put� pour sa ma�trise des formes po�tiques et litt�raires, ainsi que sa capacit� � repr�senter les aspects de la nature humaine. C'est une histoire complexe dont l'action se d�roule en Gr�ce et r�unit pour mieux les d�sunir deux couples de jeunes amants : Lysandre et Hermia d'une part, D�m�trius et H�l�na d'autre part. Hermia veut �pouser Lysandre mais son p�re, �g�e, la destine � D�m�trius, dont est amoureuse H�l�na. Lysandre et Hermia s'enfuient dans la for�t, poursuivis par D�m�trius, lui-m�me poursuivi par H�l�na. Pendant ce temps, Ob�ron, roi des elfes, a ordonn� � Puck de verser une potion sur les paupi�res de sa femme, Titania. Il entre dans la for�t avec Puck. Pendant la nuit, la confusion r�gne.













A Midsummer Night's Dream


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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.




A Midsummer-night's Dream


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