This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare,...

"Una de las comedias más reconocidas de Shakespeare. Durante los preparativos de la boda de Teseo con Hipólita, dos parejas se pierden en el bosque del amor no correspondido: Hermia ama a Lisandro, pero está comprometida con Demetrio, el que a su vez es amado por Elena. Egea, madre de Hermia, se presenta ante Teseo, duque de la ciudad, para que este obligue a su hija a cumplir su compromiso o la condene a muerte. Lisandro y Hermia huyen, y Demetrio...

When Hermia's father promises her hand in marriage to a man she doesn't want, she runs away with her true love, Lysander. But their escape gets turned upside down by the fairy king Oberon and the mischievous Puck, whose magic turns love into hate and men into beasts!