A Midsummer Nightβs Dream by William Shakespeare
β Scribed by Kenneth Pickering (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 97
- Series
- Macmillan Master Guides
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
William Shakespeare: life and background....Pages 1-3
Summaries and critical commentary....Pages 4-35
Themes and issues....Pages 36-40
Techniques....Pages 41-66
Specimen passage and commentary....Pages 67-71
Critical appraisals....Pages 72-77
Back Matter....Pages 78-84
β¦ Subjects
British and Irish Literature; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Theatre History
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