A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedic play by William Shakespeare that intertwines romance, magic, and mistaken identities in an enchanted Athenian forest.

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instanceOf Shakespearean comedy
play
stage comedy
adaptedAs ballet
film
opera
radio play
television production
approximateCompositionDate 1595
1596
author William Shakespeare
character Egeus
Francis Flute
Peter Quince
Robin Starveling
Snug
Tom Snout
containsPlayWithinPlay Pyramus
surface form: Pyramus and Thisbe
countryOfOrigin England
dramaticCategory Shakespearean comedy
dramaticStructure five-act structure
firstFolioPublicationYear 1623
firstPublicationForm quarto
frequentlyPerformed true
genre comedy
fantasy
romantic comedy
hasFairyCharacters true
hasSubplot the fairy quarrel
the lovers in the forest
the mechanicals' play
includedIn First Folio of Shakespeare
surface form: First Folio
language Early Modern English
literaryInfluence influenced later romantic comedies
literaryPeriod English Renaissance
surface form: Elizabethan era
mainCharacter Demetrius
Helena
Hermia
Queen Hippolyta
surface form: Hippolyta

Lysander
Nick Bottom
Oberon
Puck
Theseus
Titania
motif dreams
the moon
notableFilmAdaptation 1935 film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle
1968 film directed by Peter Hall
1999 film directed by Michael Hoffman
numberOfActs 5
originalMedium stage play
placeInShakespeareCanon one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies
setting Athens
an enchanted forest near Athens
theme illusion and reality
love
magic
order and disorder
theatricality
transformation
timePeriodOfSetting mythical ancient Greece
writer William Shakespeare

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Royal New Zealand Ballet notableProduction A Midsummer Night's Dream
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