Contributor
Tredell, Nicolas, editor.
ImprintIpswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2020]
Imprint2020
Descriptionxxxix, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:About this volume / Nicholas Tredell -- A midsummer night's dream as fantasy fiction / Catherine Belsey -- Biography of William Shakespeare / Nicolas Tredl -- The reenchantment industry : A midsummer night's dream in its own and our time / Nicholas Tredell -- "It hath no bottom" : The critical reception of A midsummer night's dream / Nicholas Tredell -- A midsummer night's dream: Chiasmus in action / Paul Innes -- A different future on the moon: Queer genre and time in A midsummer night's dream / Hester Bradley -- The shared space of the wood in A midsummer night's dream / Lisa Hopkins -- The speed demons of A midsummer night's dream / Matthew Steggle -- "Flowers of this purple dye, / hit with Cupid's archery" : Lyly, Shakespeare and early modern Cupid / Martin Higgins -- Shakesepare and the moral imagination in A midsummer night's dream / Sean Benson -- "Thou shalt know the man": Underspecification and knowledge in A midsummer night's dream / Nicolas Tredell -- Michael Hoffman's film of A midsummer night's dream: A survey of reviews / Robert C. Evans -- "Keeping the dream alive": Nicholas Hytner's A midsummer night's dream (2019) / Ronan Hatfull -- "Every man according to the squip": Magic, metatheatre and mind control from A midsummer night's dream to Be more chill / Richard O'Brien -- Sometimes youth is not wasted on the young: A midsummer night's dream in high school / Dana E. Aspinall -- "Design your own dream": Students as content creators in an online Shakespeare course / Julia Reinhard Lupton and Janet DiVincenzo.
Note:Shakespeare's intricately structured drama employs a rich range of poetry and prose to juxtapose fairies and mortals, fantasy and reality, reason and madness. This volume offers new perspectives on its complex form, rich language, key themes and reinterpretations in light of contemporary concerns with gender, harassment, social division and trauma.
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