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Book A Midsummer Night s Sin

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  • Author : Kasey Michaels
  • Publisher : HQN Books
  • Release : 2011-11-22
  • ISBN : 0373776101
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Sin written by Kasey Michaels and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "USA Today"-bestselling author Michaels returns with the second book in her sparkling new Blackthorn Brothers historical series, about three bad boys and the only women who can tame them. Original.

Book A Midsummer night s Dream

Download or read book A Midsummer night s Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  A Midsummer Nights Dream  in Context

Download or read book A Midsummer Nights Dream in Context written by Keith Linley and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about the cultural contexts of 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'. Is this just a light-hearted romp or is Shakespeare trying to make serious points about courtship, love, marriage and human folly? This book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that an Elizabethan audience would have brought to interpreting the play. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized conduct, about the magic and madness of love and attraction? Historical, literary, political, sociological backgrounds are explained within the biblical-moral matrices by which the play would have been judged. This book links real life in the late 1590s to the world on the stage. Discover the orthodox beliefs people held about religion. Meet the Devil, Sin and Death. Learn about the social hierarchy, gender relationships, court corruption, class tensions, the literary profile of the time, attitudes to comedy – and all the subversions, transgressions, and oppositions that made the play a hilarious farce but also an unsettling picture of a world so close to disaster.

Book  A Midsummer Nights Dream  in Context

Download or read book A Midsummer Nights Dream in Context written by Keith Linley and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about the cultural contexts of 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'. Is this just a light-hearted romp or is Shakespeare trying to make serious points about courtship, love, marriage and human folly? This book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that an Elizabethan audience would have brought to interpreting the play. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized conduct, about the magic and madness of love and attraction? Historical, literary, political, sociological backgrounds are explained within the biblical-moral matrices by which the play would have been judged. This book links real life in the late 1590s to the world on the stage. Discover the orthodox beliefs people held about religion. Meet the Devil, Sin and Death. Learn about the social hierarchy, gender relationships, court corruption, class tensions, the literary profile of the time, attitudes to comedy – and all the subversions, transgressions, and oppositions that made the play a hilarious farce but also an unsettling picture of a world so close to disaster.

Book A Midsummer Night s Dream

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare; Ed. Jim Manis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-07-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Dream written by William Shakespeare; Ed. Jim Manis and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Night

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  • Author : Chris Adrian
  • Publisher : Granta Books
  • Release : 2011-06-02
  • ISBN : 9781847083685
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Great Night written by Chris Adrian and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Midsummer's Eve three heartsick lovers are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park. Ill met by moonlight, they are stalked by a psychopathic Puck, in thrall to a beautiful Titania, and ambushed by a homeless musical theatre troupe. Together they must survive a night that might just repair their hearts, if it doesn't destroy them first. Selected by the New Yorker as one of the best young writers in America, Adrian has created a singularly playful, moving and humorous novel - a story that effortlessly crosses the borders between reality and dreams, suffering and magic, and mortality and immortality.

Book Purgatory Playhouse

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  • Author : E.J. Russell
  • Publisher : Reality Optional Press
  • Release : 2021-03-25
  • ISBN : 194703328X
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Purgatory Playhouse written by E.J. Russell and published by Reality Optional Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging a musical in Purgatory can be absolute hell. Lonnie Coleridge last saw the sun in 1968. Since then, he’s been consigned to Limbo, still wearing the same tie-dyed T-shirt and bell-bottomed jeans he had on when he left his life behind. He and others like him have one chance each year at redemption: produce a show for the Greek pantheon. Whoever pleases this very specific—and temperamental—fan group could earn the right to move on. But after a literal act of god (*cough* Hermes *cough*) destroys their sets, lights, and costumes, the company needs emergency help to rebuild. Without it, all of them could poof out of existence forever. Out-of-work theater technician TD Baylor has precisely three things on his cosmic wish list: a job, a place to stay, and a boyfriend who isn’t a total tool. He thinks he’s got the first two nailed when he gets a line on a two-week gig that includes room and board. So what if the job tip came from a guy who was leaning way too hard into the LOTR cosplay at a sketchy Halloween pop-up? At this point, TD doesn’t have anything more to lose, so he figures…what the hell. He didn’t realize hell was the operative word. When Lonnie greets him at the theater door, though...whoa. TD fantasizes that item number three could be within his reach. But then Lonnie gives him the bad news: This is Purgatory Playhouse, aka Theater of the Darned. In two weeks—if they’re lucky and can successfully mount a musical version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—the company will return to Limbo after the curtain falls. If they’re not lucky? Remember that part about hell? Purgatory Playhouse is part of the multi-author Magic Emporium Series. Each book stands alone, but each one features an appearance by Marden’s Magic Emporium, a shop that can appear anywhere, but only once and only when someone’s in dire need. This book contains a theater techie who’s one couch surf away from homeless, a production assistant who’s sort of, um, not alive, Greek gods behaving very badly indeed, and a guaranteed HEA.

Book A Midsummer Night s Hangover

Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Hangover written by Emile Benoit and published by Emile Benoit. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full length play, A Midsummer Night's Hangover, as well as the shorter one act entitled Heaven, are both hilarious romps through the absurdity of relationships - familial, platonic, romantic, and divine. In Midsummer, two young lovers must overcome the religious rigidity of the girl's father in order to be together. Inevitably, they must escape to the woods, fake their own deaths, and summon the devil himself for assistance. Midsummer is a darkly comic world of magical realism inhabited by lonely dreamers, vengeful lovers, rabid feminists, assorted potions, and a statue that springs to life. As a compliment to this full length play, Heaven is a comedic one act that imagines a crisis in heaven wherein God Himself is suffering from a creative block and must assemble the great artists of Hell to provide inspiration. What ensues is a gentle and quirky satire of religion, love, and friendship.

Book A Midsummer Night s Dream

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 0198129289
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays, and certainly the one that children are likely to encounter first; its mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies meeting in a wood outside Athens has a magic of its own. Simple and engaging on the surface, it isnonetheless a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. The fact that it is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays not to draw on a narrative source suggests the degree to which it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns.In his Introduction, defining the play in both the literary and theatrical traditions to which it belongs, Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows in the strange but enchanting amalgam hemakes of them. Both here and in the detailed commentary he draws freely upon the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.

Book A Midsummer night s Dream

Download or read book A Midsummer night s Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Shakespeare  A Midsummer Night s Dream

Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare A Midsummer Night s Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. In the introduction to this edition, 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.

Book A Midsummer Night s Dream  The Oxford Shakespeare

Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Dream The Oxford Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Shakespeare s A Midsummer night s Dream

Download or read book Shakespeare s A Midsummer night s Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book King John  Midsummer night s dream  Merchant of Venice

Download or read book King John Midsummer night s dream Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Midsummer Night   s Dream  Language and Writing

Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Dream Language and Writing written by R.S. White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and 'warbling' notes' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play's performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a 'Writing matters' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.

Book The Works of Shakespeare  A midsummer night s dream  1924

Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare A midsummer night s dream 1924 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sexuality in William Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night s Dream

Download or read book Sexuality in William Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night s Dream written by Gary Wiener and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative volume explores William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream through the lens of sexuality. The book examines Shakespeare's life and influences and offers readers a series of essays for consideration on topics related to sexuality, such as the notions of the war between the sexes, taboo sexuality, and the marginalization of women's sexuality. The text also offers readers contemporary perspectives on topics related to sexuality, such as adolescent sexuality, the categorizing of people into sexual classifications, and sex education.