A Midsummer Night's Dream Synopsis
Shakespeare's most spirited play, adapted for new audiences by Jeffrey Whitty.
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.
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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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9789387488946 |
| Publication date: |
13th February 2023 |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare |
| Publisher: |
Mjp Publishers an imprint of Repro India Limited |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
114 pages |
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About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.
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