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Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Workmanship of "A Midsummer-Night's Dream", The North American Review, Vol. 201, No. 715 (Jun., 1915), pp. 892-903
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AND THE MEANING OF COURT MARRIAGE BY PAUL A. OLSON The opinion that A Midsummer Night's Dream is largely a shimmering fabric of " moonlight, with a touch of moonshine " ' has become stock among students of Shakespeare. One re-phrases habitual insights concerning gossamer and magic when-ever one treats of the work.
May 28, 2024 · A Midsummer’s Night Dream, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1595–96. With its multilayered examination of love and its vagaries, it has long been one of the most popular of his plays. Learn about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, including its plot and characters.
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.
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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 ...
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare mocks tragic love stories through the escapades of the lovers in the forests and the ridiculous version of Pyramus and Thisbe (a tragic romance from Ovid's Metamorphoses) that Bottom and his company perform.
