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1. www.gutenberg.org › ebooks › 1514A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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   Nov 1, 1998 · A Midsummer Night's Dream Credits: the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Comedies Subject: Courtship -- Drama Subject: Athens (Greece) -- Drama Subject: Fairy plays Category: Text: EBook-No. 1514: Release Date: Nov 1 ...

2. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › msndA Midsummer Night’s Dream: Themes | SparkNotes

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   As the title suggests, dreams are an important theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; they are linked to the bizarre, magical mishaps in the forest. Hippolyta’s first words in the play evidence the prevalence of dreams (“Four days will quickly steep themselves in night, / Four nights will quickly dream away the time”), and various characters mention dreams throughout (I.i.7–8).

3. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › topicsShakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream plot summary

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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.

4. 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 is William Shakespeare’s first comic masterpiece and remains one his most beloved and performed plays. It seems reasonable to claim that on any fine night during the summer at an outdoor theater somewhere in the world an audience is being treated to the magic of the play. It is easy, however, to overlook through ...

5. www.shakespearesglobe.com › a-midsummer-nights-dreamA 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.

6. www.folger.edu › about-shakespeares-a-midsummer-nights-dreamAbout Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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   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 classical mythology. Theseus is a great warrior, a kinsman of Hercules; she is an Amazon, a warrior-woman, defeated in battle by Theseus.

7. www.imdb.com › title › tt0026714A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) - IMDb

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   A Midsummer Night's Dream: Directed by William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt. With Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dick Powell. Two couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.