A Midsummer Night's Dream (original) William Shakespeare

Unique features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare

• An extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet

• A special introduction to the play by the editor, Wolfgang Clemen, University of Munich

• A note on the sources from which Shakespeare derived A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by William Hazlitt, John Russell Brown, Frank Kermode, Linda Bamber, Camille Wells Slights