Overview

This edition of the Shakespeare play, Midsummer Night's Dream features the Bevington edition along with an extenstive array of primary documents which help contextualize the play's treatment of popular and royal festivity, communities of women (including Amazons, gossips, and nuns), marriage expectations, and the supernatural.

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Author:   William Shakespeare ,  Gail Kern Paster ,  Skiles Howard
Publisher:   Macmillan Learning
Imprint:   Bedford/Saint Martin's
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.70cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780312166212

ISBN 10:   0312166214
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   15 January 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9781319054779
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"  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"

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