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   A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of young lovers and fairies. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › A_Midsummer_Night's_DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream - Wikipedia

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   A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers.

4. www.britannica.com › topic › A-Midsummer-NightsA Midsummer Night’s Dream | Characters, Summary, & Facts ...

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   Sep 13, 2024 · A Midsummer Night's DreamPuck and Hermia, as portrayed by Mickey Rooney (left) and Olivia de Havilland, in the film A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935. (more) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1595–96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from the author’s manuscript, in which there are ...

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5. www.shakespeare-online.com › plays › midsummerThe History of Shakespeare's A Midsummer-Night's Dream

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   In 1692 it was worked over into an opera called The Fairy Queen in which Shakespeare's creations are supplemented by fauns and nymphs, swans and dragons, three drunken poets, four savages, six monkeys, a Chinese man, a Chinese woman, and Hymen. The eighteenth century three times tapped A Midsummer-Night's Dream in Leveridge's Comick Masque of ...

6. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › msndA Midsummer Night’s Dream: Key Facts - SparkNotes

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   Full Title A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Author William Shakespeare. Type of work Play. Genres Comedy; fantasy; romance; farce. Language English. Time and place written London, 1594 or 1595. Date of first publication 1600. Publisher Thomas Fisher.

7. literariness.org › 2020/07/26 › analysis-of-williamAnalysis of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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   Jul 26, 2020 · A Midsummer Night’s Dream similarly gives a “local habitation and a name” on stage for what madness, love, and the poet’s imagination can conjure. Shakespeare first made his theatrical reputation in the early 1590s with his Henry VI plays, with the historical chronicle genre that he pioneered. His early tragedies— Titus Andronicus and ...

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   What is A Midsummer Night's Dream About?

   • A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of young lovers and fairies. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

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   Is A Midsummer Night's Dream a comedy?

   • A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by William Shakespeare, an English playwright. The play is a comedy as it contains humour and has a happy ending. It has three main plot lines: the confused relationships among four lovers, a conflict between a fairy king and queen and a group of amateur actors rehearsing a play.

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   Did Shakespeare write A Midsummer Night's Dream?

   • The version published in the First Folio of 1623 was taken from a second quarto edition, with some reference to a promptbook. One of the “great” or “middle” comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its multilayered examination of love and its vagaries, has long been one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays.

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   Is A Midsummer Night's Dream based on a true story?

   • Such an appropriate scrambling of reality and illusion reflects the source of the humor and wonder of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of just three plays out of Shakespeare’s 39 (the other two are Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Tempest) for which the play-wright did not rely on a central primary source.

   Analysis of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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   What is a motif in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

   • Motifs Love out of balance; contrast (juxtaposed opposites, such as beautiful and ugly, short and tall, clumsy and graceful, ethereal and earthy) A list of important facts about William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, including setting, climax, protagonists, and antagonists.

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   When did A Midsummer Night's dream start?

   • According to Sukanta Chaudhuri, editor of the 2017 Arden edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, "The only firm evidence for the date of Dream is its mention in Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia, which appeared in 1598" (p. 283).

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9. www.shakespearesglobe.com › discover › williamA MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. - Shakespeare's Globe

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   Probably written between 1594 and 1596, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. It is set across two worlds – the court of Athens and a mystical forest that lies beyond the city’s walls. The play is a comedy and explores themes of the irrationality of love, desire, friendship, possession, jealousy and magic.