A Midsummer Night’s Dreamis one of the many comedies written byWilliam Shakespeare. It was written around 1595 and first published in Shakespeare’s first quarto in 1600. The exact reason for why this play was produced has been lost to time; some historians theorize that it could have been written for an aristocratic wedding, or for Queen Elizabeth I to celebrate the feast ofSt.John.
The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens,...