A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
Mass Market Paperback
(Signet Classics, Sept. 1, 1963)
This Signet Classic edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream features an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theatre by the general editor, Sylvan Barnet, and a special introduction to the play by Wolfgang Clemen (University of Munich). It includes dramatic criticism from the past and present with commentaries by William Hazlett, John Russell Brown, Edward Dowden, Enid Welsford, and Henry Alonzo Myers. Text, notes and commentaries are printed in the clearest, most readable type, and there is an up-to-date list of recommended readings.