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A midsummer night's dream

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  • Author: Shakespeare, William
    Contributor: Holland, Peter
    Date:
    Created
    1998
    Summary:

    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in the woods a play they hope to stage for the wedding celebrations.

    Genre:
    Drama
    Subject(s): Courtship | Fairy plays | Magic | Greece--Athens
    Original Publisher: Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press
    Language(s): English