A midsummer night's dream

Series introduction

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Biography of William Shakespeare

Summary of A Midsummer Night's Dream

Key passages in A Midsummer Night's Dream

List of characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Criticism through the ages

Source of A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the seventeenth century

From "L'Allegro" / John Milton 1633

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys 1692

From The Fairy Queen / Anonymous (attributed to Elkanah Settle) 1692

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the eighteenth century

From Roscius Anglicanus / John Downes 1708

From Reliques of Ancient English Poetry / Thomas Percy 1765

"A Midsummer Night's Dream," from Notes on Shakespeare's Plays / Samuel Johnson 1765

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the nineteenth century

From A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature / August Wilhelm von Schlegel, tr. John Black 1809

"The Midsummer Night's Dream," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt 1817

From "Shakespeare" / Thomas DeQuincey 1838

"Midsummer-Night's Dream, from Shakespeare Commentaries / G.G. Gervinus 1845

From Shakespear's : A Critical Study of His Mind and Art / Edward Dowden 1872

"A Midsummer Night's Dream," from Shakespeare : His Life, Art, and Characters / H.N. Hudson 1880

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the twentieth century

"A Midsummer Night's Dream," from Chesterton on Shakespeare / Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1904

"A Midsummer Night's Dream," from Shakespeare / Mark Van Doren 1939

"A Midsummer-Night's Dream," from The meaning of Shakespeare / Harold Goddard 1951

"May games and metamorphoses on a midsummer night," from Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : A Study of Dramatic Form and its Relation to Social Custom / C.L. Barber 1959

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" from Shakespeare's Comedy of Love / Alexander Leggatt 1974

"Fancy's images," from Comic Transformations in Shakespeare / Ruth Nevo 1980

"The bottomless dream" from Northrop Frye on Shakespeare / 1986

"Introduction," from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) / Harold Bloom 1987

"The carnivalesque in A Midsummer Night's Dream," from Shakespeare and Carnival After Bakhtin / David Wiles 1998

A Midsummer Night's Dream in the twenty-first century

"'When everything seems double' : Peter Quince, the other playwright in A Midsummer Night's Dream," from Shakespeare Survey, vol. 56 / A.B. Taylor 2003

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.