Nov 11, 2025 · Read and download A Midsummer Night's Dream for free. Learn about this Shakespeare play, find scene-by-scene summaries, and discover more Folger resources.

Jul 31, 2015 · In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus's Athens, two …

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare confronts us with mysterious images of romantic desire. There are Theseus and Hippolyta, about to be married; both are strange and wonderful figures from …

A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream Browse the following passages from Shakespeare’s play, listen to the audio to hear them performed by the professional actors of …

The Folger Shakespeare Library and our publishing partner, Simon & Schuster Audio, hope you enjoy these excerpts from our audio performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

A Midsummer Night's Dream can be read online with Folger Digital Texts and purchased from Simon and Schuster. The play can also be purchased in Three Comedies, a collection that also includes …

A Midsummer Night’s Dream does not let its audience forget that love entails confusion and danger as well as grace, although it never entirely separates these contraries.

Mar 11, 2025 · A Midsummer Night’s Dream is often the Shakespeare play first taught to students because it is thought to be a light-hearted confection, a romantic comedy about fairies, lovers, and …

Leggatt, Alexander. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love, pp. 89–115. London: Methuen, 1974. Leggatt reads the play as a constant process of exorcism as each possible …

Jul 31, 2015 · In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus's Athens, two …