A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Barber, Cesar Lombardi. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.

Bonazza, Blaze O. Shakespeare’s Early Comedies: A Structural Analysis. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.

Briggs, Katharine M. The Anatomy of Puck. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959.

Foakes, R. A., ed. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Kehler, Dorothea, ed. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Critical Essays. New York: Garland, 2001.

Nevo, Ruth. Comic Transformations in Shakespeare. New York: Routledge, reprint edition 2005.

Rhoades, Duane. Shakespeare’s Defense of Poetry: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Thompson, Stephen P. Readings on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2000.

Young, David. Something of Great Constancy: The Art of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966.

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