A Midsummer Night's Dream (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.

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Overview

A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.

Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare includes:

  • New Scholarship – Premiere scholars introduce each play with contemporary scholarship. An essay on editing the text provides an in-depth look at the quartos and folios used in the edition.
  • Contextualizing Essays – Essays on Shakespeare’s England, language, and life, along with essays on performing Shakespeare and significant performances frame the play in both historical and theatrical context for readers. A look at the lasting influence of the play on music, art, film, and dance creates an interdisciplinary framework with which to approach the play.
  • Better Notes – Through one-word margin definitions, facing-page glosses, and longer end notes after the play, our innovative approach to notes pulls readers away from the text fewer times while providing them with more information and comprehensive analysis.
  • Further Reading – An annotated bibliography of titles, hand-selected by the introduction author, takes readers beyond the edition for further reading.

Shakespeare’s hilarious though often unnerving story of desire, confusion, and magic has delighted audiences for 400 years. The editor, Mario DiGangi, provides a set of notes rich in insight into the play’s many literary and cultural points of reference.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2004

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Regal nobility, mischievous fairies, mortals in love - where else can you find a more tantalizing cast of characters? Shakespeare, of course! A Midsummer Night¿s Dream, a story written to enchant your imagination, is full of unexpected twists. At the beginning, you are introduced to six soap-opera style Athenians caught in the game of love. The reader is lead to assume that this is a historical-fiction love story. But later on, the lovers meet fairies and sprites, and a story unlike any other reveals itself. Magic potions and antidotes, transfigured human heads, and fairies and humans in love unfold in this plot of anxiety, turmoil, love, friendship, and chivalry. I really enjoyed this book. Shakspeare does a great job of weaving unimaginable twists into a seemingly predictable story of love.

    15 out of 17 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Mon May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    Do not bother

    I downloaded this good thing it was free it was not even relatively close to the real thing do not waste your time with this crap. It is only 31 pages.

    10 out of 17 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Fri Aug 19 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    Beautiful as always

    My favorite one of his plays! Shakespeare never is a disappoitment!

    6 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Okay

    I had to read this for class and I was one of a few that gog it on a e book. You shouldnt get it for a project or something important. Youd seriously need the actual book to be able to follow the story and the page numbers. It only has half of the number of pages too. I say its a good book and its by Shakespeare! What do you mean its not a good book? Shakespeare is a well known writer every where. If it wasnt a good book? People in schools wouldnt be doing projects and be learning about it. Over all: many type os, no numbers for each lines, and missing many things. Its a good book but since written in the time of Shakespeare, of course its hard to understand but you learn something new everytime. Id say a very good story line but very poor in format since it leaves out may important details from the original.

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sat Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2012

    Typos everywhere

    Hard to read because of typos

    5 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Wed Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    Sucked!!!

    Random characters appeared all throughout. It really took the magic out of it. Do not bother.

    5 out of 16 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Sat Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    What the hey

    Wost spelling mistakes ever!!!!!! AND THE STORY LINE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    4 out of 15 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Sun Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    This+book+is+really+bad

    4 out of 16 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Don't bother.

    The formatting was horrible. The text looks likes one big block-- no separation even between speakers. Unreadable.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Awesome

    It was very helpful. I used it when i was in it.

    3 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    It's okay

    It's okay, but anomonous on may 20 is kinda right.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    more from this reviewer

    Have not read this yet

    i have not read this yet, i have been ready the twilight saga again, as soon as i am done w/ that i will then begin this book. i hope to enjoy it.

    3 out of 21 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2013

    Wow...

    I've noticed that the people who commented and didn't like it can't even spell. ...

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Jan 02 00:00:00 EST 2012

    Im a student

    We are reading this book now and its really good the characters are wonderful the plot is astounding and above al its a very good read i reccomend it 100%.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Fri Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    Don't grab it for a class!

    I ordered this for a class in hopes of not having to carry around tons of books, but it didn't have any notes, or line numbers- something that is essential for a Shakespeare play! Good for just reading, but if you need the line numbers, don't go for it.

    2 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Reveiw

    Mid summers nigts dream is awesome.my favorite charecter is puck. Such humor. Anx it is beautiful.makes me want to cite it and impress my friends.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sat Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Great Read!

    This is definetly worth reading. It is a true masterpiece! Also, quick sidenote to all of those who are complaining that this book was written in Old English- it wasn't. It wasn't even written in Middle English. This was written in MODERN ENGLISH!!!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sat Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2013

    Ok

    I mean it doesn't even make sense

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Classic

    Look just because you're not smart enough to get it doesn't mean it is a bad horrible book. You haven't even read it so you can't say you hate it. So shutup.
    This is a classic and you should read it.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    gross

    tooo much romance

    1 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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