A Midsummer Night's Dream

"This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is wonderfully lucid and thoughtful, offering supporting material that will appeal to readers from high school students to scholars. The introduction is especially thoughtful, offering, in addition to expected discussions of love, magic and imagination, an exploration of the theatrical history. The bibliography and filmography are both detailed and helpful, and the questions guide students to consider the play from many viewpoints without ever forcing an interpretation onto them."
     —Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University

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William Shakespeare
Edited by John Ford
Series Editor James H. Lake

2009 - 126 pp.
Imprint: Focus, Series: New Kittredge Shakespeare

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Format ISBN Price Qty
Paper 978-1-58510-165-8
$8.95
Instructor Examination (Review) Copy 978-1-58510-165-8
$1.00

George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments—all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.

These plays are being made available by Focus with the permission of the Kittredge heirs.


Reviews:

"This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is wonderfully lucid and thoughtful, offering supporting material that will appeal to readers from high school students to scholars. The introduction is especially thoughtful, offering, in addition to expected discussions of love, magic and imagination, an exploration of the theatrical history. The bibliography and filmography are both detailed and helpful, and the questions guide students to consider the play from many viewpoints without ever forcing an interpretation onto them."
     —Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University


About the Author:

John R. Ford teaches at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Ford is the author of numerous books and articles on Shakespeare. In 2006 Ford was awarded the Excellence in Research Award from Delta State University.