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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide
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All you need to know about William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise and beautifully designed to help students understand, and enjoy, great works of literature. They are perfect for coursework, revision and exam preparation. Connell Guides are also great reads themselves scholarly, yet approachable and entertaining.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a glittering masterpiece which was revolutionary in its time, argues Tom Bishop; the most complicated piece of plotting in any English play. Held together by a lyrical energy at once enthralling and playful, it is about love and the role of the imagination in love, and its view of us mortals is roughly Puck's: 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!' But our folly, Shakespeare suggests, is also a blessing: the paradox at the heart of the play is that the source of all that is most dangerous and destructive in the world is also the source of all that is best in it.
