A Midsummer Night's Dream (The RSC Shakespeare)

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. This book includes:                *  An introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate*  The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page*  A scene-by-scene analysis*  An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre*  A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of A Midsummer Night's Dream in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors – Michael Boyd, Gregory Doran and Tim Supple – so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death. www.rscshakespeare.co.uk