num_pages: 204
description: Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul WerstineIllustrated with material in the Folger Library CollectionsIn A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare confronts us with mysterious images of romantic desire. There are Theseus and Hippolyta, about to be married; both are strange and wonderful figures from classical mythology.Within Theseus's world of Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into marriageable couples, but only after one triangle, with Hermia at the apex and Helena excluded, is temporarily replaced by another, this time with Helena at the apex and Hermia excluded.In the woods outside of Athens, where the lovers suffer their strange love experiences, we find yet other images of desire, these involving the king and queen of Fairyland and an Athenian weaver transformed into an ass-headed monster.Finally, there is the tragic love story of "Pyramus and Thisbe," ineptly written and staged by Bottom and his workingmen companions.
language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
titlecomplete: A Midsummer Night's Dream
characters: Hermia, Nick Bottom, Titania, Hippolyta, Tom Snout, Francis Flute (Shakespeare), Hermia (Shakespeare), Theseus (mythology), Puck, Oberon, Philostrate, Moth, Peter Quince, Helena (Shakespeare), Robin Starveling, Egeus, Lysander (Shakespeare), Mustardseed, Peaseblossom, Demetrius, Snug, Cobweb
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Plays, Theatre, Fiction, Poetry, Read For School, Fantasy, Romance
ratings_count: 525530
places: Atenas
publisher: Washington Square Pr