A Midsummer Night}}}s Dream [Paperback]

From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeares marvelousA Midsummer Nights Dreamis a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love.

Burton Raffelis Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications arePoems and Prose from the Old English, Clig?s, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, andYvain, all published by Yale University Press.Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, includingThe Western CanonandShakespeare: The Invention of the Human.