A midsummer night's dream
By: William Shakespeare ; [written out by Graily Hewitt ; illustrated and decorated and the cover designed by Arthur Rackham].
Contributors: Hewitt, Graily, 1864-; Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939.
Publisher: Abaris Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Courtship -- Drama; Athens (Greece) -- Drama
Description: A comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. The play consists of multiple subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot revolves around a conflict between four Athenian lovers, one about a group of six amateur actors who have to act out their interpretation of the play 'Pyramus and Thisbe' at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. These subplots take place in a forest, inhabited by fairies who control the characters of the play. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
Notes: Photoreprint ed. of a ms. in the William Augustus Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library.