Titania Embracing Bottom (1793)
Henry Fuseli
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Titania Embracing Bottom (1793)
Henry Fuseli
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Titania Sleeps (1928) - Frank Cadogan Cowper
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Titania Sleeping (1841) - Richard Dadd
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Lesson Plans

English Class in Performance - abridged script

Folger Shakespeare Library Curriculum Guide to MND

MND - Cummings Study Guide

MND - Six Activities

MND - Web English Teacher

MND Least Tern - background info & teacher resources

Pyramus and Thisbe, Page to Stage

Rare Words vs. the Facts - PBS, In Search of Shakespeare

Study Guide (Glencoe Lit. Library) - Background, questions, activities

Studying MND - (includes comparison with Romeo & Juliet)

"Such Affection Move": Finding Staging Clues in MND

Teacher's Guide to MND - Signet

"Very tragical mirth:" Romeo and Pyramus, Juliet and Thisbe

Working with Shakespeare, the Poet and Dramatist - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

www.Midsummer

Stage & Film

Christopher Plummer Makes MND Soar at Tanglewood

Dream Away Time with RSC’s Magical Spectacle - 2009

Magical, Musical Midsummer with Glee - 2009

MND - Royal Shakespeare Co., 2009

MND - Shakespeare & Co.

MND @ the Internet Movie Database

Shakespeare NYC 2005 Production

The Universe Within MND: Deriving Setting and Scenery from Shakespeare's Text

Well Met By Disco's Light: The Donkey Show - 2009

The Text

Complete text at MIT

Download complete text in MS Word - midsummer.doc (337K), midsummer.zip (66K)

Electronic version of the text - Designed for reading online

Internet Shakespeare Edition - Draft texts of the folio and quarto editions

OpenSource Shakespeare - cue scripts

Searchable online text at The Literature Network