A Midsummer Night’s Dream

　　The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in dazzling new covers to excite Shakespearians of all ages.

　　The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the twentieth century by general editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used.

　　These easy-to-read editions incorporate over 30 years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967. With these electrifying new covers, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals for many years to come.

　　This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is edited with an introduction by Russ McDonald.

作者簡介

　　Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. He has edited Ben Johnson's masques, Christopher Marlowe's poems and translations, and many other classics. His books include Imagining Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The Authentic Shakespeare (Routledge, 2011), Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and The Illusion of Power (University of California Press, 1992). A. R. Braunmuller is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (King John) and Cambridge (Macbeth) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Russ McDonald is a professor of English in Goldsmiths College at the University of London. He is the author of The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001). He has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and was a director of the Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library.