The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its lyricism, comedy both broad and subtle and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Nights Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeares works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and