A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.

At a glance

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare at his most playful and most architecturally…
  • The result is not merely whimsical.
  • It is a drama about desire, illusion, embarrassment, and the strange liberties that…
  • Why read A Midsummer Night’s Dream today?

The play remains fresh because it moves so lightly while doing so much at once. It is funny without becoming slight, lyrical without losing pace, and theatrical in a way that makes every change of scene feel like a…

About this book

Young lovers, quarreling fairies, and would-be actors collide in an enchanted wood where confusion turns into comic revelation.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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