Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night'S Dream

This volume presents a selection of comment and criticism on A Midsummer Night's Dream, ranging from Jacobean times to the present day. Among the aspects discussed are the sources and influences in the play's composition; and accounts of significant productions are given. The twentieth-century contributions include criticism by Cesar L. Barber, Anne Barton, John Russell Brown, G. K. Chesterton, Benedetto Croce, R. W. Dent, Stephen Fender, Harley Granville-Barker, G. K. Hunter, Sally Jacobs, Frank Kermode, G. Wilson Knight, Jan Kott, Minor White Latham, Alexander Leggatt, Benedict Nightingale, George C. D. Odell, Paul A. Olson, Noel Purdon, Arthur Quiller-Couch, William Rossky, Ernest Schanzer, Frank Sidgwick, Robert Speaight, Andrew D. Weiner, Enid Welsford, Harcourt Williams and David P. Young.