A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, published by Macmillan in 1971, presents a spirited adaptation of the classic play by Jeffrey Whitty. This edition, consisting of 179 pages, is crafted in English and aims to make Shakespeare’s work accessible to contemporary readers while preserving the original’s storytelling architecture and emotional depth.
Readers will find that Whitty’s adaptation matches Shakespeare’s lines and rhymes, offering a fresh interpretation that retains the play’s humor and essence. This version is part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which seeks to provide modern translations of Shakespeare’s works, ensuring that the beauty of his verse remains intact. The adaptation serves as a bridge between the original text and today’s audience, making it suitable for both young adults and those interested in literary criticism and drama.
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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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