A Midsummer Night S Dream Language And Writing

Author : R.S. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350103894

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Language and Writing by R.S. White Pdf

This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and 'warbling' notes' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play's performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a 'Writing matters' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6JYL

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472518373

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Midsummer Night's Dream by Heidi Brayman Hackel Pdf

The Language and Writing series offers a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical and writing skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's rich and complex dramatic lanaguage, and the student's own critical language and how she can improve and develop this to become a critical writer. This lively and informative guide reveals A Midsummer Night's Dream as a play rich in all types of language - figurative, gestural, gendered and idiomatic - and a comedy in which language is misused. It is an ideal play from which to explore Shakespeare's imaginative and creative use of language as dramatic and poetic text.

Author : R.S. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350103918

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by R.S. White Pdf

"This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and 'warbling' notes' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play's performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a 'Writing matters' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations."--

Author : William Shakespeare; Ed. Jim Manis
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare; Ed. Jim Manis Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781443441551

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Sonnets by William Shakespeare Pdf

Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393523164

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare Pdf

“In the pure poetry and intoxication of words, Shakespeare never rose higher than he rises in this play.” —G. K. Chesterton This Norton Critical Edition includes: • Shakespeare’s most popular comedy—with its unforgettable love triangles, woodland fairies, and magic—based on Grace Ioppolo’s conflated text (Q1 with F1 variants) and accompanied by her introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. • Five illustrations. • Seven sources for the play, including those by Geoffrey Chaucer, Plutarch, and Lucius Apuleius. • Fifteen wide-ranging critical assessments, including ones by Jan Kott, Margo Hendricks, and Peter Brook. • Adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Robert Cox and Henry Purcell and Elkanah Settle. • A Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198129288

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107615458

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre in this book. Classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive 'stagecraft', 'write about it', 'language in the play', 'characters' and 'themes' features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference.

Author : James L. Calderwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002300841

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by James L. Calderwood Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781443443234

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

True love takes the stage at the marriage of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hipployta, as the fairies of the forest interfere with the lives of mortals attending the wedding feast. Although betrothed to Demetrius, Hermia is in love with Lysander and must choose between bowing to her father’s wishes or a life of chastity. But Helena is in love with Demetrius, who only has eyes for Hermia. At the same time, Oberon, king of the fairies, seeks to punish his wife Titania using a love potion, as the realms of mortals and fairies collide on one magical midsummer night. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Dorothea Kehler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135886677

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Dorothea Kehler Pdf

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

Author : Lois Burdett
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 1552091244

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A Midsummer Night's Dream for Kids by Lois Burdett Pdf

A children's version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Signet
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0451526961

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Critical and historical notes accompany this comedy of fairies, star-crossed lovers, and workmen trying to put on a wedding celebration play

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192834201

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The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

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. - ;A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays which do not draw on narrative sources, which suggests that it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns to an unusual degree. In his introduction 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. -