A Midsummer Night’S Dream

Four young Athenians, a quarrelling fairy court and a troupe of amateur players collide in a wood outside the city, and Shakespeare lets the confusion run until morning. A Midsummer Night's Dream remains his lightest and most quoted comedy. This Fingerprint! Publishing edition presents the full five-act text with the verse set for comfortable reading rather than for performance shorthand. Readers follow the tangled courtships, the dispute between Oberon and Titania, Puck's meddling with the love-juice, and the rustics rehearsing Pyramus and Thisbe for the duke's wedding. At a glance: • The complete play in five acts, in readable modern typesetting • Comedy, verse and folklore woven through a single midsummer night • A frequent set text on school and undergraduate syllabuses • Approachable for first-time readers of Shakespeare and for rereading Students, drama groups and general readers of the classics will find this Fingerprint! Publishing edition easy to keep at hand, and it is stocked at Boipoka.