A Midsummer Night`s Dream

Shakespeares most spirited play, adapted for new audiences by Jeffrey Whitty. Tony Awardwinning and Oscar-nominated storyteller Jeffrey Whitty offers his adaptation of A Midsummer Nights Dream, mindfully adapted into modern language. Matching the Bard line for line, rhyme for rhyme, Whitty illuminates Shakespeares meaning for modern audiences while maintaining the plays storytelling architecture, emotional texture, and freewheeling humor. Designed to supplement, not supplant, the original, Whittys Midsummer cuts through the centuries to bring audiences a fresh, moment-by-moment take, designed to flow as effortlessly for modern audiences as Shakespeares beloved classic played to the Elizabethans. This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festivals 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 Shakespeares verse. These volumes make these works available for the first time in printa new First Folio for a new era.