Midsummer Night's Dream, A

Comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1595–96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from the author's fair copy. The version published in the First Folio was taken from a second quarto edition, with some reference to a promptbook. One of the “great,” or “middle,” comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with a multilayered examination of love and its vagaries,