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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Overview 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 …

Aug 10, 2020 · 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 …

For example, in Act 3, scene 1, when the workers are rehearsing their play, they want to know if the moon will shine the night that they hope to perform it. In the fiction of the play, they consult …

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, …