COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts. Research Professor of English. University of Sussex
The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes. presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
Its 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 shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. 'Lord, what fools these mortals…