TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shakespeare,William
AU  - Paster,Gail Kern
AU  - Howard,Skiles
TI  - A midsummer night's dream: texts and contexts 
T2  - [Bedford Shakespeare series]
SN  - 0312218222 (hardcover)
AV  - PR 2827 .A2 P47 1952
PY  - 1952///
CY  - Boston, Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Bedford/St. Martin's, Macmillan
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - Theseus,
KW  - Hippolyta
KW  - Courtship
KW  - Drama
KW  - A midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare)
KW  - gtt
KW  - Athens (Greece)
KW  - Fairy plays
KW  - Comedies
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Series statement on jacket; Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-337) and index; Pt. 1. A midsummer night's dream / William Shakespeare, ed. David Bevington -- Pt. 2. Contextual readings -- ch. 1. Popular festivals and court celebrations -- The rites of May -- The ballad -- Court entertainments -- ch. 2. The making of men -- The ranks of men : William Harrison's Of Degrees of People -- The formation of the ruler : Plutarch's Life of Theseus -- The formation of the gentleman : Sir Thomas Elyot and Roger Ascham -- Working men -- The new man : Simon Forman's dreams -- ch. 3. Female attachments and family ties -- Amazons -- Gossips -- Nuns -- The virgin queen -- A poet and her patron -- Family ties -- ch. 4. Natural and supernatural -- Bad weather and dearth -- Metamorphosis and monstrosity -- Bestiality and monstrosity -- Monsters and prodigies -- Fairy belief
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0662/98086158-d.html
ER  -