A Midsummer Night's Dream
Primary Sources:
Music to listen to while you read: Click here
Free, full online text of this book: Click here
Gutenberg Project e-book options: Click here
Audio recording of this book: Click here
Libravox Audiobook: Click here
Sparknotes: Click here
No Fear Shakespeare: Click here
MSND Cheat Sheet: Click here
Quotes compiled from this book: Click here
Quotes compiled from this author: Click here
Quotes about this book/author: Click here
Searchable database of Shakespeare's works: Keyword Search or Advanced Search
Classroom Sources:
MSND "Cheat Sheet": Link
Pre-reading Acting Scenarios: Click here
Secondary Sources:
Resources to consult as you write your MSND Q1 Essay:
View Only Essay Prompt: Link
Force Copy Essay Prompt to Edit: Link
Recommended monologues from MSND to choose: Link
Arden Edition of Play (lots of helpful notes and commentary, the most in-depth version): Click here
Annotated edition: (some helpful notes and definitions of challenging words at the bottom of each page as a footnote) click here
Another annotated edition (helpful notes and definitions of unknown words): click here
Link to BASIC full text (simply for copy and paste): Click here
No Fear Shakespeare (use only to get a general idea if you can't understand): Click here
Scholarly Essays about this play:
From Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom: Click here
From Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber: Part 1 and Part 2
From The Meaning of Shakespeare by Harold Goddard: Click here
From Shakespeare by Mark Van Doren: Click here
Link to BASIC full text: Click here
Link to RECOMMENDED full text: click here
Arden Edition of Play: Click here
Character Map "Circles": click here
Short summary: click here
Folger Digital Text: Click here
UCSD stage version set in the 1960s: Click here
Recent MSND production at Rice University: Click here
The Beatles' spoof on MSND: Click here
Image collection from the Folger Library: Click here
Animated Version of play: Click here
