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A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a much-performed Shakespeare comedy featuring fairies, frustrated lovers, enchantments, and a play within the play performed ineptly by "rude mechanicals".

Bibliographic notes

A Midsummer Night's Dream was initially published in quarto in 1600, having been first performed a few years earlier. The second quarto is also dated 1600 on its title page, but was published in 1619. The play was also included in the First Folio of 1623, published seven years after Shakespeare's death.

See also

Wikipedia article about A Midsummer Night's Dream
Online books by William Shakespeare
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Enhanced editions

A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu). Includes synopses, audio performance selections, essays, and related memorabilia.

Student editions

A Midsummer Night's Dream (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at Shakespeare Navigators). Includes notes explaining unfamiliar words and phrases.

Early source editions

A Midsommer Nights Dreame (London: T. Fisher, 1600), by William Shakespeare (page images at uvic.ca). The first quarto, and first known publication of the play.

Early theatrical adaptations

A Fairy Tale in Two Acts, Taken from Shakespeare, As It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal In Drury-Lane, London (adaptation of part of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1763), by William Shakespeare, David Garrick, and George Colman

Other online editions and versions

A Midsommer Nights Dreame (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1907), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)

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