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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Comedy by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare between the years 1594 to 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans. The fairies themselves are also in conflict, as the King and Queen of Fairies argue over an Indian changeling boy. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular and widely performed plays. (Source: Wikipedia)
Credits

Imported from: https://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/download/teisimple/MND.xml
Author: William Shakespeare
Publication: The Folger Shakespeare (formerly Folger Digital Texts), February, 2017, MND
Editors: Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine
Encoded in TEI Simple by: Martin Mueller, Michael Poston
Linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner by: Philip R. Burns, Martin Mueller
Edited for XML and encoded by: Michael Poston, Rebecca Niles

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Information

  • Approximate running time

    135 min

  • Language

    English

  • Composition of the troupe

    1 narrator bot

    22 actor bots

Characters

  • A Fairy

    in the service of Titania

  • Cobweb

  • Demetrius

  • Egeus

    father to Hermia

  • Francis Flute

    bellows-mender

  • Helena

  • Hermia

  • Hippolyta

    queen of the Amazons

  • Lysander

  • Mote

  • Mustardseed

  • Nick Bottom

    weaver

  • Oberon

    king of the Fairies

  • Peaseblossom

  • Peter Quince

    carpenter

  • Philostrate

    master of the revels to Theseus

  • Robin Goodfellow

    a “puck,” or hobgoblin, in Oberon’s service

  • Robin Starveling

    tailor

  • Snug

    joiner

  • Theseus

    duke of Athens

  • Titania

    queen of the Fairies

  • Tom Snout

    tinker