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A Midsummer Night's Dream (AmazonClassics Edition)
β Scribed by William Shakespeare
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company;LAKE UNION Publishing
- Year
- 2018;2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 58 KB
- Edition
- AmazonClassics Edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0393631664
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β¦ Synopsis
Festivities are underway in Athens as Duke Theseus prepares to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. But before the revelry can begin, four young lovers, a roving band of craftsmen, and the quarreling king and queen of the fairies must navigate the antics of a mischievous forest sprite named Puck.
Drawn from Greek mythology, enchanted fairy lore, medieval legend, and the Bardβs own beguiling imagination, A Midsummer Nightβs Dream is Shakespeareβs most popular, peculiar, and everlasting comedy.
AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literatureβs most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.
Revised edition: Previously published as A Midsummer Night's Dream , this edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
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This interactive e-book edition of Shakespeare Made Easy: *A Midsummer Night's Dream* allows you to move easily back and forth between the original text and the modern text of the play. By clicking on a character's name in the original text, you are taken to the same place in the modern text, and vi
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A young woman flees Athens with her lover: only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly: all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs: dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells.
In *A Midsummer Night's Dream,* Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus' Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couplesβbut not before they form first one love triangle, and t