A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy by William Shakespeare, written around 1595–96.
The play interweaves four plots—Athenian lovers fleeing into a forest, feuding fairy royalty, mischievous sprite Puck, and amateur actors rehearsing a play—creating a dreamlike tangle of magic, mistaken identity, and transformation.
The title has become shorthand for enchanted confusion or romantic chaos: The whole weekend was a midsummer night's dream.
- OberonFairy king's name
- fairy kingMale ruler of fairies
- TitaniaFae monarch, celestial body
- fairy queenMonarch of magical folk
- plotStoryline or land parcel
Elizabethan era · love · dialogue · Puck · folklore · transformation · Globe Theatre · mischief · nature · magic · enchanted forest · Hermia · Lysander · Helena · comedy · Demetrius · star-crossed lovers · literary adaptation
- PlaysHamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear
- Classic PlaysHamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet
- British OperasBilly Budd, Death in Venice, Paul Bunyan, King Arthur, Punch and Judy
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- MasterpiecesMona Lisa, Last Supper, Starry Night, The Scream, David
A Midsummer Night's DreamRomeo and Juliet
Tragedy of rival households
Othello · Antony and Cleopatra · Anna Karenina · Wuthering Heights · La Traviata
midsummer, summer, nights, dreams, dreamer, dreamers, dreaming, dreamed, dreamt