Midsummer Night
Longest day's darkness
Midsummer Night refers to the night of the summer solstice or the eve of the Midsummer festival, traditionally around June 21-24 in the Northern Hemisphere.
The phrase evokes magic, romance, and enchantment—largely due to Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, where fairies meddle in human affairs.
Midsummer nights are the shortest of the year, barely darkening in northern latitudes: We stayed up through the midsummer night watching the sky.
- solsticeDay of maximum tilt
- firefliesBioluminescent nocturnal beetles
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- fairyTiny winged magical creature
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
enchanted · moonlight · Puck · lovers · star-crossed lovers · magic · magic spell · warm · twilight · bonfire · forest · enchanted forest · June · revels · sprites · dew · flower crown · starlight
- summer songs
- Shakespeare studiesKing Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado
- Comedy FilmsShrek, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, Easy A, Austin Powers
- theater historyGreek tragedy, vaudeville, William Shakespeare, Drury Lane, Christopher Marlowe
Midsummer NightDecember solstice
Year's shortest daylight period
Christmas Eve · dead of winter · midwinter · winter darkness
middle, midsummer, summer, summers, summery, summertime, night, nights, nightly