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Reader x27 s guide A Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide by Course Hero What's Inside j Book Basics d In Context a Author Biography h Characters k Plot Summary c Scene Summaries g Quotes l Symbols m Themes b Motifs e Suggested Reading j Book Basics AUTHOR

A Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide by Course Hero What's Inside j Book Basics d In Context a Author Biography h Characters k Plot Summary c Scene Summaries g Quotes l Symbols m Themes b Motifs e Suggested Reading j Book Basics AUTHOR William Shakespeare YEAR PUBLISHED GENRE Comedy ABOUT THE TITLE Much of the action in A Midsummer Night's Dream happens in the woods ??a place of fantasy and illusion In Shakespeare's time Midsummer's Eve or the summer solstice was a time when spirits and humans interacted The play repeatedly refers to May Day festivities however so the events appear to take place the night before May Day rather than on Midsummer's Eve The play may have been performed ?rst on a midsummer night The fairy king Oberon notes as four lovers return to Athens that the events of the night in the woods may seem a dream and fruitless vision In his ?nal speech Oberon's attendant Puck reiterates the idea of reality versus dreams If we shadows have o ?ended Think but this and all is mended That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream Additionally the play includes spells magic transformations and quick reversals of a ?ection that echo the disjointed nature of dreams d In Context Fairies and Changelings In A Midsummer Night's Dream the fairy king Oberon and the fairy queen Titania quarrel over a changeling child Titania will not give the child to Oberon despite Oberon's demands The quarrel leads to disruptions in nature that a ?ect both the fairy and human worlds The idea of a changeling goes back to old beliefs and tales about the interactions between humans and fairies While modern conceptions of fairies are often helpful ??a fairy godmother for example ??in folklore fairies were not always benevolent They were supposedly responsible for stealing children from their families and stealing souls from humans One idea common to fairy myths is the changeling ??a fairy child left in place of a human child who is taken to serve in the fairy world Infants not yet baptized were thought to be most vulnerable to being stolen away and replaced Most often the term changeling referred to the fairy left as a replacement But sometimes as in A Midsummer Night's Dream the word changeling refers to the stolen human CA Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide In Context child instead of the fairy her queen of a new land May Day and Midsummer's Eve Although the title of the play seems to indicate the action takes place at midsummer that may not be the case Shakespeare seems to have combined several traditions and festivals to form the setting of the play The most important of these are May Day ??a festival day celebrating youth spring and new life and associated with fertility and love ??and Midsummer's Eve ??the night before the summer solstice Outside of the title there are