A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play by William Shakespeare. The full text of A Midsummer Night's Dream is available at Project Gutenberg.

The play is considered a comedy. The most famous character is Puck. It is believed to have been written around the same time as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and shares many characteristics with that tragedy: a plot centering on rebellious young love, florid imagery in language that often feels more separate from the dramatic action than it does in Shakespeare's more mature works. Pyramus and Thisbe, the comical tragedy performed by the mechanicals at the end of Midsummer, bears an even closer resemblance to the plot of Romeo and Juliet.

The Shakespeare play has inspired several movies. One of the better known was the one produced in 1935 by Henry Blanke and directed by William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt. Several notables were in the cast: James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell and Victor Jory.

The film won two Oscars:

It was nominated for another two:


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