A midsummer night's dream : texts and contexts / William Shakespeare ; edited by Gail Kern Paster, Skiles Howard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Shakespeare, William, Works ; Publication details: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's ; Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, c1952.Description: xxii, 346 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0312218222 (hardcover)
  • 9780312218225 (hardcover)
  • 0312166214 (pbk.)
  • 9780312166212 (pbk.)
  • 0333763963 (Macmillan)
  • 9780333763964 (Macmillan)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR 2827 .A2 P47 1952
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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