A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mistaken identities, moonlit forests, and a flower whose juice makes mortals dote—A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's most enchanting comedy, and it is presented here in full. This edition contains the COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED original text, faithfully reproduced with its every scene, speech, and song, alongside a new introduction and reader's notes that illuminate the play's language, structure, and stage history without getting in the way of the poetry. Follow four young lovers into the woods outside Athens, where Oberon and Titania quarrel, Puck works his mischief, and a company of earnest tradesmen rehearses 'the most lamentable comedy' ever staged. Whether you are meeting the Dream for the first time or returning to an old favorite, this volume invites you to read slowly, laugh freely, and discover why, after more than four centuries, these 'shaping fantasies' still delight. Part of The Founding Texts Library.