A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometimes in the late-1500s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors in a moonlit forest, and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit it and Duke of the Athenians. This play is one of Shakespeare’s most popular and is widely performed across the world.

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The author states that “there is no known source for the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, although individual elements can be traced to classical literature; for example the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the transformation of bottom into an ass is descended from Apuleius’ The Golden Ass; Shakespeare would have studied both texts in school.” This caught my attention because I had somewhat