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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and... Read Full Overview

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Modern English side-by-side with original text includes study notes and stage directions.

For the first time collected in one volume, Shakespeare's original play side-by-side with an accurate line-by-line modern... Read Full Overview

Esta genial y m gica comedia en cinco actos escrita en verso y prosa relata la historia de cinco parejas de enamorados que sufren y disfrutan por causa de su amor y de las argucias de sus enamorados.

The authoritative edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry,... Read Full Overview

"It's as if Shakespeare is saying: it is a play after all. It's only a play"

Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays.

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand... Read Full Overview