基本信息出版社：NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
页码：128 页
出版日期：1998年01月
ISBN：1853260304
条形码：9781853260308
装帧：平装
开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
丛书名：Wordsworth Classics
外文书名：仲夏夜
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Synopsis
This book is edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made "A Midsummer Night''s Dream" one of the most popular of Shakespeare''s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. ''Lord, what fools these mortals be!'', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.8
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare''s more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night''s Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton