A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare's romantic comedy about love and marriage. When four young lovers get lost in the forest, the fairies who live there play jokes on them - turning love into hate and hate into love.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays and is still performed across the world.

This Macmillan Reader is written as a playscript and includes original extracts from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A Note about the Author

A Note about This Play

This version of A Midsummer Night's Dream

The People in This Story



Act 1

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Act 2

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Act 3

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Act 4

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Act 5

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Points for Understanding

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