Shakespeare’s comedy of tangled Athenian lovers, quarreling fairy royals, and a magical midsummer night of mix-ups.
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Shakespeare’s comedy of tangled Athenian lovers, quarreling fairy royals, and a magical midsummer night of mix-ups.
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As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of student's notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays. For thi...
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Love triangles, potions forcing desire, kisses; frequent bawdy innuendo, no explicit sex
Violence & gore
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Death-or-convent threat; lovers’ quarrels; comic stage deaths in play-within-play
Profanity
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Elizabethan bawdy wordplay and mild coarse insults; no modern strong profanity
Substance use
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Magical love-potion juice used to enchant several characters; wedding revels
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ identities or relationships established in the text
Religious content
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Classical gods, Diana, and Athenian ritual references in passing
Magic & witchcraft
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Fairies, Puck, love spells, and Bottom’s transformation drive the plot
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult, demonic, or ritual practice content
Political content
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Patriarchal marriage law; class hierarchy; period racial othering of changeling child
Self-harm / suicide
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Mock double suicide in Pyramus and Thisbe interlude; death penalty threat
Abuse & suffering
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Forced-marriage coercion; Oberon’s magical control of Titania; lovers’ cruelty
Other
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