The Shakespeare Plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Worth buying if: You enjoy brisk, poetic comedy and stageable scenes.
Skip it if: You prefer modern realist fiction with straightforward prose.
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Summary
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream follows intertwined plots of lovers, amateur actors, and fairy rulers whose spells and misunderstandings create comic chaos and tender insight into love and imagination.
Why this book now
This enduring comedy still rewards readers with its lively language, theatrical wit, and timeless exploration of love's unpredictability.
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- You enjoy brisk, poetic comedy and stageable scenes.
- You appreciate wordplay, romantic entanglements, and mythic mischief.
- When you like high-stakes dilemmas, the chapters move briskly from one reveal to the next.
- You prefer modern realist fiction with straightforward prose.
- You want a long, detailed novel rather than a short play.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780844257419
Worth buying if: You enjoy brisk, poetic comedy and stageable scenes.
Skip it if: You prefer modern realist fiction with straightforward prose.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Light Short sit-downs
At about 168 pages, this short play reads quickly—ideal for a few focused sittings or a read-aloud session to enjoy the verse and jokes.
What stands out here
This NTC edition offers a compact, reader-friendly presentation of the text suitable for study or classroom reading rather than critical annotation.
Best way to approach it
Read aloud or slowly savor the verse to catch jokes, rhymes, and shifts between the human and fairy worlds; staging imagination enhances the experience.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780844257419
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