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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Wordsworth Collection)
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wordsworth Collection Author:William Shakespeare Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of SussexIts lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shi... more »mmeringly blended.Love is terated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom, the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced by the voluptuosly amorous Titania.« less