A Midsummer Night's Dream

by SparkNotes, William Shakespeare

SparkNotes Literature Guides:
Making the reading experience fun!
 
When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying and paper writing.
 
Includes: An A+ Essay—an actual literary essay written about the Spark-ed book—to show students how a paper should be written.

16 pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: a glossary of literary terms
Step-by-step tutoring on how to write a literary essay
A feature on how not to plagiarize

Genres: Shakespeare

64 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2003

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Reviews

[Shelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

I stumbled onto the awesomeness that is Spark Notes last year when covering Romeo and Juliet and have since tried to add them to our Language Arts materials to elucidate the beautiful yet antiquated text. This edition however did not showcase Sparknotes best feature of side by side comparisons of a primary and simplified story. That being said it was a helpful source of additional insight into the characters, summary and analysis. However if you have not already purchased this, the Cliffs Complete edition does the same thing only slightly better, making this addition unnecessary.

[Royce Ratterman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read for a Shakespearean era related course and in conjunction with my English History studies.
Overall, I found this work of some interest - a good piece for the researcher and enthusiast.
This play's theme may prove to be one of my future resources for ghost authoring novels for E.MH. Ratterman.
A quick read/skim through.
Number rating relates to the book's contribution to my needs.

[Aimée · Rating 2 out of 5]

So not into Shakespeare's heroines. Or repeating plots...

[Grace Jensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jesus, there are a lot of people in this play!

A nice way to read something I otherwise wouldn't have. I much prefer the tragedies.