A Midsummer Night's Dream: Play on Shakespeare
Autor William Shakespeare Traducere de Jeffrey Whittyen Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2021
Tony Award–winning and Oscar-nominated storyteller Jeffrey Whitty offers his adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, mindfully adapted into modern language. Matching the Bard line for line, rhyme for rhyme, Whitty illuminates Shakespeare’s meaning for modern audiences while maintaining the play’s storytelling architecture, emotional texture, and freewheeling humor. Designed to supplement, not supplant, the original, Whitty’s Midsummer cuts through the centuries to bring audiences a fresh, moment-by-moment take, designed to flow as effortlessly for modern audiences as Shakespeare’s beloved classic played to the Elizabethans.
This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print—a new First Folio for a new era.
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Notă biografică
Jeffrey Whitty is a screenwriter, playwright, poet, and performer. In 2018 he received Best Adapted Screenplay honors for Can You Ever Forgive Me? from the Writers Guild of America, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Satellite Press Association, and others, as well as Academy Award and BAFTA nominations.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays which do not draw on narrative sources, which suggests that it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns to an unusual degree. In his introduction Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, and to Shakespeare's construction of a world of night and shadows. Both here and in his commentary he explores the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays which do not draw on narrative sources, which suggests that it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns to an unusual degree. In his introduction Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, and to Shakespeare's construction of a world of night and shadows. Both here and in his commentary he explores the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Cuprins
About The Series
About This Volume
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PART I: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON)
PART II. CONTEXTUAL READINGS
1. Popular Festivals and Court Celebrations
The Rites of May
John Stow,From A Survey of London
Henry Machyn,From Diary of a Resident in London
Philip Stubbes,From The Anatomy of Abuses
The Ballad
The Fetching Home of May
Court Entertainments
Kenilworth and Coventry
Robert Laneham, From A Letter Descibing the Entertainment of the Queen at Kenilworth
Coventry Records of the Hock Tuesday Play
The Fairy Queen
From Entertainment at Elvetham
Edmund Spencer, From The Shepheardes Calendar
2. The Making of Men
The Ranks of Men: William Harrison's Of Degrees of People
William Harrison, From The Description of England
The Formation of the Ruler: Plutarch's Life of Theseus
Plutarch, From The Lives of Nobles Grecians and Romans
The Formation of the Gentleman: Sir Thomas Elyot and Rodger Ascham
Sir Thomas Elyot, From The Book Named the Governor
Rodger Ascham, From The Schoolmaster
Working Men
The Statute of Artificers
From The Statute of Artificers
Royal Proclaimation Regulating Chester Wages
The New Man: Simon Forman's Dreams
Simon Forman, From The Autobiography of Simon Forman
3.Female Attachments and Family Ties
Amazons
Christine de Pizan, From The Book of the City of Ladies
Sir Walter Raleigh, From The History of the World
John Knox, From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiments of Women
Queen Elizabeth I, Address to the Troops at Tilbury
Gossips
Edward Gosynhyll, From The Schoolhouse of Women
Nuns
Richard Layton, A Letter, Certifying the Incontinency of the Nuns of Syon
Desiderius Erasmus, From A Maid Hating Marriage
The Virgin Queen
Queen Elizabeth I, From Speech to Parliment on Marriage and Succession
William Camden, From The Annals of Queen Elizabeth
A Poet and Her Patron
Amelia Lanyer, From The Description of Cooke-ham
Family Ties
Thomas Becon, From A New Catechism
Henry Bullinger, From The Christian Statue of Matrimony
William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties
Philip Stubbes, From A Crystal Glass for Christian Women
4. Natural and Supernatural
Bad Weather and Dearth
John Stow, From The Annals of England
Metamorphosis and Monstrosity
Ovid and Reginald Scot
Ovid, From Metamorphoses, Book 14
Bestiality and Monstrosity
Prosecuting Buggery
From Calendar of Assize Records
Monsters and Prodigies
Ambroise Paré, From Of Monsters and Prodigies
Fairy Belief
John Aubrey,Collecting Fairy Lore
Richard Corbett, The Fairies' Farewell
The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Good-fellow
ICorinthians 2:1--16
Bibliography
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Title Page of the Quarto A Midsummer Night's Dream
2. Woodcuts fo City and Woods from the Roxburghe Ballasd
3. Morris Dancers from the WIndow of a Gentleman'a House
4. Maypole DAnce from Michael Drayton;s Poly-Olbion
5. Woodcut Illustrating the Ballas "The Crost Couple"
6. Queen Elizabeth I on a Hunt
7. The Entertainment at Elvetham
8. The Queen and Her Court, from Edmund Spencer's The Shepheaardes Calandar
9. Page from Plutarch's The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
10. Title Page from A Catechism
11. Title Page from George Tuberville's The Noble Art of Venery
12. Manuscript Page from The Autobiography of SImon Forman
13. Lascivious and Threatening Amazons from Sir Walter Raleigh's The Discovery of Guiana
14. Amazons, Each with a Breast Removed, from John Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis
15. Queen Elizabeth I as an Amazon
16. Frontispiece from Samuel Rowland's 'Tis Merry When Gossip Meet
17. Woodcut from Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies
18. Circe Transforming Ulysses' Sailor into Animals
19. Monster, Half-Man, Half-Pig, from Ambroise Pare's Of Monsters and Prodigies
20. Title Page from Robin Good-fellow, His Mad Pranks
About This Volume
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PART I: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON)
PART II. CONTEXTUAL READINGS
1. Popular Festivals and Court Celebrations
The Rites of May
John Stow,From A Survey of London
Henry Machyn,From Diary of a Resident in London
Philip Stubbes,From The Anatomy of Abuses
The Ballad
The Fetching Home of May
Court Entertainments
Kenilworth and Coventry
Robert Laneham, From A Letter Descibing the Entertainment of the Queen at Kenilworth
Coventry Records of the Hock Tuesday Play
The Fairy Queen
From Entertainment at Elvetham
Edmund Spencer, From The Shepheardes Calendar
2. The Making of Men
The Ranks of Men: William Harrison's Of Degrees of People
William Harrison, From The Description of England
The Formation of the Ruler: Plutarch's Life of Theseus
Plutarch, From The Lives of Nobles Grecians and Romans
The Formation of the Gentleman: Sir Thomas Elyot and Rodger Ascham
Sir Thomas Elyot, From The Book Named the Governor
Rodger Ascham, From The Schoolmaster
Working Men
The Statute of Artificers
From The Statute of Artificers
Royal Proclaimation Regulating Chester Wages
The New Man: Simon Forman's Dreams
Simon Forman, From The Autobiography of Simon Forman
3.Female Attachments and Family Ties
Amazons
Christine de Pizan, From The Book of the City of Ladies
Sir Walter Raleigh, From The History of the World
John Knox, From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiments of Women
Queen Elizabeth I, Address to the Troops at Tilbury
Gossips
Edward Gosynhyll, From The Schoolhouse of Women
Nuns
Richard Layton, A Letter, Certifying the Incontinency of the Nuns of Syon
Desiderius Erasmus, From A Maid Hating Marriage
The Virgin Queen
Queen Elizabeth I, From Speech to Parliment on Marriage and Succession
William Camden, From The Annals of Queen Elizabeth
A Poet and Her Patron
Amelia Lanyer, From The Description of Cooke-ham
Family Ties
Thomas Becon, From A New Catechism
Henry Bullinger, From The Christian Statue of Matrimony
William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties
Philip Stubbes, From A Crystal Glass for Christian Women
4. Natural and Supernatural
Bad Weather and Dearth
John Stow, From The Annals of England
Metamorphosis and Monstrosity
Ovid and Reginald Scot
Ovid, From Metamorphoses, Book 14
Bestiality and Monstrosity
Prosecuting Buggery
From Calendar of Assize Records
Monsters and Prodigies
Ambroise Paré, From Of Monsters and Prodigies
Fairy Belief
John Aubrey,Collecting Fairy Lore
Richard Corbett, The Fairies' Farewell
The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Good-fellow
ICorinthians 2:1--16
Bibliography
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Title Page of the Quarto A Midsummer Night's Dream
2. Woodcuts fo City and Woods from the Roxburghe Ballasd
3. Morris Dancers from the WIndow of a Gentleman'a House
4. Maypole DAnce from Michael Drayton;s Poly-Olbion
5. Woodcut Illustrating the Ballas "The Crost Couple"
6. Queen Elizabeth I on a Hunt
7. The Entertainment at Elvetham
8. The Queen and Her Court, from Edmund Spencer's The Shepheaardes Calandar
9. Page from Plutarch's The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
10. Title Page from A Catechism
11. Title Page from George Tuberville's The Noble Art of Venery
12. Manuscript Page from The Autobiography of SImon Forman
13. Lascivious and Threatening Amazons from Sir Walter Raleigh's The Discovery of Guiana
14. Amazons, Each with a Breast Removed, from John Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis
15. Queen Elizabeth I as an Amazon
16. Frontispiece from Samuel Rowland's 'Tis Merry When Gossip Meet
17. Woodcut from Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies
18. Circe Transforming Ulysses' Sailor into Animals
19. Monster, Half-Man, Half-Pig, from Ambroise Pare's Of Monsters and Prodigies
20. Title Page from Robin Good-fellow, His Mad Pranks
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Perhaps the most popular of all of Shakespeare's comedies, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" humorously celebrates the vagaries of love. The approaching wedding festivities of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride-to-be, Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, are delightfully crisscrossed with in-again, off-again romances of two young pairs of Athenian lovers; a fateful rivalry between the King and Queen of the Fairies; and the theatrical aspirations of a bumbling troupe of Athenian laborers. It all ends happily in wedding-night revelry complete with a play-within-a-play presented by the laborers to the ecstatic amusement of all. This edition, complete with explanatory footnotes, is reprinted from a standard British edition.
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A series that reboots the way Shakespeare's plays are printed . I quickly came to love having notes at the same eye level as the text to which they relate. It's significantly quicker and easier to glance to the right to get a meaning, than to constantly look up and down between text and a dense pile of notes on the bottom of the page. With these books, even note-dependent reading can continue virtually uninterrupted, making them ideal for following a recorded performance or reading aloud . Although the books in this series were created for actors and directors, their sheer vivacity and user-friendliness makes them ideal for students and teachers too. They add just enough information to bring the language to life without getting bogged down in details.
These editions are likely to help not only actors and drama students but also all amateur Shakespeareans including schools and colleges which stage the plays . What genius to have Simon Russell Beale as a series editor along with two Shakespeare Institute academics, Michael Dobson and Abigail Rokison-Woodall.
The Arden Performance Editions so far represent a much-needed and important contribution. In such a crowded market, it is remarkable to see editions that feel so fresh, relevant, and necessary.
These editions are likely to help not only actors and drama students but also all amateur Shakespeareans including schools and colleges which stage the plays . What genius to have Simon Russell Beale as a series editor along with two Shakespeare Institute academics, Michael Dobson and Abigail Rokison-Woodall.
The Arden Performance Editions so far represent a much-needed and important contribution. In such a crowded market, it is remarkable to see editions that feel so fresh, relevant, and necessary.