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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Puzzle Pack
40,200 words, approx. 134 pages
A complete lesson plan by Teacher's Pet. For Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: LitPlan Teacher Pack
40,200 words, approx. 134 pages
A complete lesson plan by Teacher's Pet. For Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.
Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare Made Easy) Student Guide
20,400 words, approx. 68 pages
A complete lesson plan by Saddleback Educational Publishing. For Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide
14,400 words, approx. 48 pages
A complete lesson plan by Saddleback Educational Publishing. For Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.


Quotations
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quotes
1,007 words, approx. 3 pages
A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in approximately 1595 or 1596, is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare . Contents 1 Act I 2 Act II 3 Act III 4 Act IV 5 Act V 6 External links // Act I But earthly happier is the rose distill’d Than that, which,...


Author Biography

Name: William Shakespeare
Birth Date: April 23, 1564
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Place of Death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Midsummer Night'S Dream, A
567 words, approx. 2 pages
comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1595–96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from the author's manuscript, in which there are some minor inconsistencies. The version published in the First Folio of 1623 was taken...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Summary
3,848 words, approx. 13 pages
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Shakespeare borrows from the history of ancient Greece for the framework of his play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Using the Greek legend of Athens' king Theseus and the Amazonian woman Hippolyta, the play...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Information
7,569 words, approx. 25 pages
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
A Dream Of Midsummer Theater
04/25/2002: 671 words, approx. 2 pages
MEDFIELD - One summer day last year, Bob Eiland set up his mobile office on a rocky overlook in Medfield with a view of the Charles River. He was working away on his laptop when two women walking a dog spotted him, perched there...
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The Village Voice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
03/24/2004: 420 words, approx. 1 pages
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM By William Shakespeare BAM HarveyTheater 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn 718.636.4100 DUDE MECHANICALS Propeller's male cast dreams of old-fashioned innovation Silky-tongued British actors, uniformed in white long Johns, juggle roles in a Shakespeare comedy...
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AP News
A `Dream' finds romance _ and laughs
8/24/2007: 524 words, approx. 2 pages
Who knew you could find that many new laughs in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," but the mismatched romance and bucolic buffoonery in the Public Theater's Central Park production prove surprisingly fresh and funny.Director Daniel Sullivan has not imposed any startling concept on what is the...
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AP News
Prince Charles, wife visit Philly church
1/28/2007: 341 words, approx. 1 pages
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla waved to adoring fans Sunday as they walked to a private church service before they were to depart for New York and continue their whirlwind American weekend.On an overcast and chilly day, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Male Magic: A Midsummer Night's Dream
16,662 words, approx. 56 pages
Irene Dash, Hunter College of the City University of New York
And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,
 And make her full of hateful fantasies.
II.i.257-58
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Critical Essay by Jan Kott
15,306 words, approx. 51 pages
In the following essay, Kott examines the significance of Bottom's metamorphosis in A Midsummer Night's Dream, particularly focusing on why Shakespeare alluded to both St. Paul and Apuleius in reference to Bottom's transformation.
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Critical Essay by Richard H. Cox
13,598 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, Cox examines the discordant nature of A Midsummer Night's Dream, asserting that in Shakespeare's comic treatment of Theseus, and in the serious undertones of his portrayal of the artisans and especially Bottom, the playwright used comedy to teach his audience serious lessons about civic life.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%
A Cubist Perspective of William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
2,301 words, approx. 8 pages
This paper looks at the many different views of love depicted in William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. This play, like 20th century cubist art examines one issue by exposing many different sides and aspects. The Elizabethean era, like early 20th century was a time of great and rapid social change which fostered a different way of viewing familiar items and concepts.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Are Theatre Elements Used for the Unconscious, Darker Forces in "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"
1,543 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay analyzes if there is a use of darker forces in Peter Brook's 1970's representation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare.
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Essay Grade: 97%
Weathering the Storms of True Love
1,501 words, approx. 5 pages
William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comical tragedy of four young lovers who experience the storms of love.
 


A Midsummer Night’s Dream Study Pack

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