num_pages: 66
description: Perhaps the most popular of all of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream humorously celebrates the vagaries of love. The approaching wedding festivities of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride-to-be, Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, are delightfully crisscrossed with in-again, off-again romances of two young pairs of Athenian lovers; a fateful rivalry between the King and Queen of the Fairies; and the theatrical aspirations of a bumbling troupe of Athenian laborers. It all ends happily in wedding-night revelry complete with a play-within-a-play presented by the laborers to the ecstatic amusement of all. This edition, complete with explanatory footnotes, is reprinted from a standard British edition.
language: English
title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
titlecomplete: A Midsummer Night's Dream
characters: Peaseblossom, Philostrate, Moth, Hermia, Snug, Mustardseed, Oberon, Lysander (Shakespeare), Hippolyta, Titania, Theseus (mythology), Francis Flute (Shakespeare), Peter Quince, Robin Starveling, Tom Snout, Cobweb, Nick Bottom, Egeus, Puck, Hermia (Shakespeare), Demetrius, Helena (Shakespeare)
genres: Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 525442
places: Atenas
publisher: Dover Publications