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Book SynopsisFor this second edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream R. A. Foakes has added a new account of important contemporary theatre productions and recent scholarly criticism on the play. The reading list has also been revised and updated.
Trade Review'… a fine example of judicious editorial writing. Foakes guides the reader securely and fluently through the critical and scholarly disputes that have accumulated around the play. He manages to be informative without being patronizing, and detached with out failing to offer opinions.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of ContentsIntroduction, with new section on recent stage and critical interpretations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: A further note on sources; Reading list.
