A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 2021, presents a modern adaptation of this classic play. This edition, consisting of 112 pages and written in English, features an adaptation by Jeffrey Whitty, who skillfully translates Shakespeare’s original text into contemporary language while preserving its rhyme and rhythm. The adaptation aims to make the play’s themes and humor accessible to today’s audiences, maintaining the essence of Shakespeare’s storytelling.
Readers will find that Whitty’s version illuminates the play’s meaning and emotional depth, offering a fresh perspective on the narrative. This adaptation is part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which seeks to present Shakespeare’s works in a way that resonates with modern readers without sacrificing the beauty of the original verse. The edition serves as a bridge between the past and present, making it suitable for both new audiences and those familiar with Shakespeare’s work.
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Shakespeare’s most spirited play, adapted for new audiences by Jeffrey Whitty.
Tony Award-winning and Oscar-nominated storyteller Jeffrey Whitty offers his adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, mindfully adapted into modern language. Matching the Bard line for line, rhyme for rhyme, Whitty illuminates Shakespeare’s meaning for modern audiences while maintaining the play’s storytelling architecture, emotional texture, and freewheeling humor. Designed to supplement, not supplant, the original, Whitty’s Midsummer cuts through the centuries to bring audiences a fresh, moment-by-moment take, designed to flow as effortlessly for modern audiences as Shakespeare’s beloved classic played to the Elizabethans.
This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of “The Bard” in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print–a new First Folio for a new era.
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