A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Fantastical comedy gently satirising love at first sight

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The New Cambridge Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2nd edition
Edited by R. A. Foakes

Shakespeare in Production
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Edited by Trevor R. Griffiths

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Related essays from The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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Much Ado about Nothing: Performance History Onstage and in Film, 1980s–1990s by F. H. Mares and Angela Stock

Shakespeare and Renaissance Aesthetics by Hugh Grady

Entertainments: Baiting, Dances, Contests by Will West

Oral Tradition by Steven Newman

Traditional Entertainments and Celebrations by François Laroque

Comic Books and Manga by Sven-Arve Myklebost

Cosmetics by Farah Karim-Cooper

Country by Gabriel Egan

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Court by Thomas Betteridge

Making the Scene: Introduction by Bruce R. Smith

Shakespeare Using Early Modern Translations by Liz Oakley-Brown

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.2: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” by Patricia Fagundes

Production Processes by Tiffany Stern

Popular Culture: Introduction by Mary Ellen Lamb

Pronunciation and OP on the Modern Stage by Paul Meier

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Related resources from the Folger Shakespeare Library

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Rackham, Arthur, artist. Are you sure that we are awake? [London: 1908].

Pegram, Fred, artist. Scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream at Her majesty's Theatre. [1900?].

Bida, Alexandre, artist. Midsummer night's dream, IV, 1, Titania adorns Bottom with Flowers. Nineteenth century.

Robertson, W. Graham, artist. Costume illustration for Titania for the Daly production of Midsummer Night's Dream. [1895?].

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Alcott, Louisa May. Little Pyramus and Thisbe. Nineteenth century. - opens in new tab

Sarony, Napoleon. Ada Rehan as Helena, in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. New York, 1880.

Shakespeare, William. A Midsommer nights dreame. London: [by Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, 1600.

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Hoppner, John, artist. Midsummer night's dream, Oberon, Titania and the fairies. [mid- to late nineteenth century?].

Stothard, Thomas, artist. Midsummer night's dream, The.Go bid the hunsmen wake them with their horns, act 4, sc. 1. James Heath, printmaker. London: James Heath & G. & J. Robinson, 1802.

Partridge, John, artist. A midsummer night's dream, Pyramus: If I were fair, Thisbe, I were only thine. 1831.

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Much Ado about Nothing: Performance History Onstage and in Film, 1980s–1990s by F. H. Mares and Angela Stock

Shakespeare and Renaissance Aesthetics by Hugh Grady

Entertainments: Baiting, Dances, Contests by Will West

Oral Tradition by Steven Newman

Traditional Entertainments and Celebrations by François Laroque

Comic Books and Manga by Sven-Arve Myklebost

Cosmetics by Farah Karim-Cooper

Country by Gabriel Egan

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Court by Thomas Betteridge

Making the Scene: Introduction by Bruce R. Smith

Shakespeare Using Early Modern Translations by Liz Oakley-Brown

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.2: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” by Patricia Fagundes

Production Processes by Tiffany Stern

Popular Culture: Introduction by Mary Ellen Lamb

Pronunciation and OP on the Modern Stage by Paul Meier

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