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  1. 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. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding.

  2. Jul 31, 2015 · Synopsis: In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results.In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in the woods a play they hope to stage for the wedding celebrations.

  3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, likely written around 1595-1596, is a delightful comedy that weaves together the intersecting stories of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors, and a mischievous group of fairies.Set in an enchanted forest near Athens, the play explores themes of love, illusion, and the unpredictable nature of desire.

  4. [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants] Theseus. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow

  5. Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, there's no single source for the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream.But Shakespeare did take various tales and characters from a wide number of sources and stitch them together to create his play.

  6. May 28, 2024 · 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 some minor inconsistencies.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 ...

  7. Act III The workers' rehearsals in the wood are overheard by Puck, who plays a trick on them by giving Bottom an ass's head. After frightening the others away, Bottom is lured towards the sleeping Titania whom Oberon has anointed with Puck's magic flower juice.

  8. Jul 31, 2015 · Toggle Contents Act and scene list. Characters in the Play ; Entire Play In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.

  9. Jul 16, 2024 · Introduction to the play. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love.Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.

  10. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved and enduring comedies. It was likely written between 1594 and 1596, around the same time Shakespeare was working on Romeo and Juliet and Richard II.The play was published in 1600 and again in 1619 after Shakespeare’s death, and it was included in the First Folio of 1623.