A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare. 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, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.

ADAPTATIONS

Book: This Must Be Love (2004) by Tui SutherlandMovie: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935, 1968, 1999)Music: A Midsummer Night's Dream by composer Felix MendelssohnOpera: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin BrittenBallet: A Midsummer Night's Dream by George Balanchine

CITATIONS

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Digital image. Brit Lit V. Jeff Symonds, 6 Mar. 2012. Web. 23 Jan. 2014.A Midsummer Night's Dream. Digital image. Rice Theatre Presents. Free Press Houston, 2013. Web. 23 Jan. 2014.A Midsummer Night's Dream. Dir. William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt. Perf. James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ian Hunter. Warner Brothers, 1935.A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2013. Youtube. Web. 22 Jan. 2014. ."A Midsummer Night's Dream." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 20 Jan. 2014. Web. 20 Jan. 2014.Cobbe Portrait. Digital image. Cobbe Portrait. Wikepedia, Jan. 2014. Web. 23 Jan. 2014.Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, Adrian Farmer, Eirian James, Judith Howarth, Jaime Laredo, and William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Nimbus Records, 1986. MP3.Shakespeare, William, and W. H. Durham. A Midsummer Night's Dream. New Haven: Yale UP;, 1918. Print.

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