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4 of 5 stars bookshelves: winter-20112012, willsphernalia, radio-3, re-read, music, paper-read, film-only, fradio, fantasy, summer-2012, currently-reading, autumn-2014, re-visit-2014 Read from December 28, 1976 to October 13, 2014, read count: 4 Description: Shakespeare's intertwined love polyg...
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My favorite Shakespeare play.
Even though this isn't Shakespeare's best play, it's my favorite one. I love the light humor the fairies bring to the story and the romantic turmoil the characters experience. Everything in this play happens really quickly and it's all very confusing, even to the audience/reader but it's also clearl...
I got a copy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream because it had been quoted, retold or mentioned in several YA books I’ve read, so I got curious. While I was reading through it, I was quizzical about the fact that this was a comedy. The plot seemed tragic for me, especially the short play about Phyramus an...
A Midsummer’s Night Dream is perhaps Shakespeare’s best known and most well loved comedy. It is one of Shakespeare’s most readable plays, and most people seem to love it because of its use of language and wonder. Like in many of the other plays, a reader can see the use of doubling, for instance ...
I was a big Shakespeare fan in my teens and twenties, then got away from it over the years. When I came back and re-read this in my 40's, it was fun to see how much more meaning a lot of the lines had for me now that I have so much more life experience.This is one of my favorite Shakey's. Just pla...
This is my favorite Shakespeare play. It is magical and breezy, and overall very fun.
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