{"product_id":"midsummer-night-s-dream-language-and-writing","title":"Midsummer Night’s Dream: Language and Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArden Student Skills: Language and Writing \u003c\/i\u003evolumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare’s texts. The books’ core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare’s complex dramatic language and expanding your own critical vocabulary as you respond to his plays. Each guide in the series will empower you to read and write about Shakespeare with increased confidence and enthusiasm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play.  \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare’s diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and ‘warbling’ notes’ and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom’s comic malapropisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies, and its critical reception; an account of the play's movie adaptations completes the volume. Each chapter offers a 'writing matters' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226306138456,"sku":"9781350103887","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350103887_da9ae05c-98c6-4866-8b5b-8fd877f6b140.jpg?v=1771916470","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/midsummer-night-s-dream-language-and-writing","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}