A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Pelican Shakespeare
$16.98
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2016
Summary
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used.
Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143128588 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143128582 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel, A.R. Braunmuller |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 117g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 127mm |
| Series: | Shakespeare, Pelican |
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About The Author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.
Russ McDonald is a professor of English in Goldsmiths College at the University of London. He is the author of The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare. He has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and was a director of the Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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