A Midsummer Night's Dream: The State of Play

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare's most well-known comedy of desire, a play that speaks powerfully to contemporary concerns.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most resilient plays. Although often dismissed as light comedy suitable for young readers, the play is now taken seriously, transformed through readings from queer, feminist, post-colonialist, race and ecocritical perspectives, as well as in its global performances and adaptation...