A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most original and varied of Shakespeare's early comedies. In structure it is rather like a layered cake, each layer seemingly separate, but all contributing to the overall flavour.

The subjects covered in the following pages include:

• The top layer: Oberon, Titania, and Puck
  
• The top human layer: Theseus and Hippolyta
  
• The middle layer: the lovers
  
• The Bottom layer: the "rude mechanicals"
  
• The play-within-the-play

See also:

• A modern text of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Old spelling texts of Folio 1 and Quarto 1 .
• A list of book facsimiles that contain A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• The essential facts about the play.*