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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Author
William Shakespeare
Binding
Paperback
Dimensions
6 in0.23 in9 in
Language
en
Pages
100
Publication date
December 4, 2020
Yr Publication Year
2020
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

“It’s as if Shakespeare is saying: it is a play after all. It’s only a play”

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanical), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

The play consists of four interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which are set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon.

A Midsummer Night's Dream has been produced many times in New York, including several staging's by the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park and a production by the Theatre for a New Audience, produced by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater. In 1978, the Riverside Shakespeare Company staged an outdoor production starring Eric Hoffmann as Puck, with Karen Hurley as Titania and Eric Conger as Oberon, directed by company founder Gloria Skurski.

A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!

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