<i>Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing </i>volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare¿s texts. The books¿ core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare¿s complex dramatic language and expanding your own critical vocabulary as you respond to his plays. Each guide in the series will empower you to read and write about Shakespeare with increased confidence and enthusiasm.This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare''s popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. <i>A Midsummer Night¿s Dream</i> is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare¿s diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and ¿warbling¿ notes¿ and nursery rhythms of fair