A Midsummer Night's Dream

For centuries "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has been one of William Shakespeare's most beloved plays. First performed around 1596, Shakespeare's comic fantasy is a sly reckoning with love, jealousy and marriage.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans and are engaged in their own domestic intrigue.