- A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Folger Shakespeare Library
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- A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Folger Shakespeare Library
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology In the woods outside Theseus's Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not…
- About Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In 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
- Quotes from A Midsummer Nights Dream - Folger Shakespeare Library
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream Browse the following passages from Shakespeare’s play, listen to the audio to hear them performed by the professional actors of Folger Theatre, and click the line numbers to read the quotes in context
- Love-in-idleness: Pansies in A Midsummer Nights Dream
In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Athenians and fairies alike turn to flowers, plants, and herbs to forge the play’s complex relationships during a delirious night in the forest Accordingly, the play blossoms with botanical language as its entangled love plots unfold
- An Introduction to This Text: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
For example, in Act 3, scene 1, when the workers are rehearsing their play, they want to know if the moon will shine the night that they hope to perform it In the fiction of the play, they consult an almanac to find out, and some editors print a stage direction of the form “Quince consults an almanac ”
- Listen: A Midsummer Nights Dream - Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library and our publishing partner, Simon Schuster Audio, hope you enjoy these excerpts from our audio performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- A Midsummer Nights Dream - Folger Shakespeare Library
Overview In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another
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