A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer night's
Dream
by William Shakespear
Author:
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" was written by William
Shakespeare, who was born in Stratfort-upon-Avon, in 1564. After he had
attended the Stratfort School, he married in November 1582 Anne Hathaway
and five years later they got their first daughter. For whatever reason, he went
to London and became an actor- dramatist. In the beginning of his career he
was both actor and writer. His earliest plays were Henry VI, Richard III, The
Comedy of Errors, Titus and Andronicus,... all of them were written in 1952.
Other important plays are Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and
Juliet and of course A Midsummer Night's dream (one of his earlier
comedies).
He died on 23rd April, 1616 in London.
Published :
It´s a Spring Book, published by The Hamlyn Publishing
Group Limited. It was first published in 1958 under the title "The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare".
Type of book:
" A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a stage play. It includes a
mixture of elements and a style which enables William Shakespeare to be serious
and not serious at the same time. For him, the plot is as important as the characters.
Many of his acts have, like this one, an open end and a nearly sudden beginning.
This play in V Acts throws up both, romantic and anti romantic attitudes. He
stimulates the imagination of the spectator by fantastic contrasts and the creation
of an exotic fairy world in the theatre.
Subject:
It´s a play about an entertainment more obvious than a realistic
representation of what life is like. So it is more a comedy which may have
moments that disturb, but it will find its way past them to a happy ending and
a celebration in harmony and with good hope for the future.
It is the story about four...
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