William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Links on Shakespeare

Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet with biography, bibliography and criticism, plus "Shakespeare search tools and the major Internet search engines" and lots more
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

The Shakespeare Resource Centre with useful links about Elizabethan England, The Globe Theatre, Shakespeare "the man" and the authorship debate
http://www.bardweb.net/index.html

"This falles out better, then I could devise": Play-Bound Playwrights and the Nature of Shakespearean comedy (Kenneth B. Steele, University of Toronto, 1990)
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/SURROGAT%20PLAYWRIT.txt

On A Midsummer Night's Dream

A comprehensive site about the play with annotated hypertext version, character sketches and a few links
http://www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/msnd.html

A free study of the play by "Book Rags" with a comprehensive list of essay topics
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mnd/

A rapid survey of the play with a few links towards productions
http://www.pathguy.com/mnd.htm

the Spark Notes sites with summary of the play and study topics
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/

The Classic Notes site with analyses of each act and interesting essays
http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/midsummernight/

An analysis of A Midsummer Night's Dream by "TheatreHistory.com"
http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/midsummer001.html

Comparing A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet
http://www.eriding.net/amoore/gcse/mnd.htm#3

An essay by Kenneth B. Steele (University of Toronto, 1989) about "Shakespeare's paradoxical, oxymoronic treatment of the Petrarchan idiom and the Pyramus legend"
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/PETRARCH%20PYRAMUS.txt

A list of essay topics about the play
http://www.coursework.info/74/

Another list of essays with some short excerpts from critical books and "free previews"
http://www.questia.com/popularSearches/midsummer_nights_dream.jsp

"The play within the play": Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and Ovid's Metamorphoses (about Pyrame and Thisbe)
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa050499.htm

A basic study guide to the play with essay topics and a survey of the main themes
http://www.eriding.net/amoore/shakespeare/dream.htm#22

The WikipediA guide to the play with useful links on the characters and mythology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream

Background and summary of the play by Shake Sphere (with some interesting information on folio and quarto)
http://sites.micro-link.net/zekscrab/Midsum.html#Midsummer

A site with on-line texts and information on the sources of the play
http://www.unibas.ch/shine/linkscommndwf.html