
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Limited Editions Club (1939)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare‘s most famous and beloved plays. It was written sometime around 1596. The play has a number of interweaving plots that all that take place around the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. There is much comedy, with love as its centerpiece, set within a dreamlike world full of fairies. Benedetto Croce says of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille: Here is … Continue reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Limited Editions Club (1939)