Download or read book A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare the New Annotated Edition written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta (the former queen of the Amazons). These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.