A Midsummer Night's Dream

Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Full Cast Dramatization

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
The World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies

The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, brings A Midsummer Night’s Dream to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love in unexpected ways. In the woods outside Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another. The king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy. Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, in an effort to distract Titania from the custody battle. While all of this is going on, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.”

This new full-cast recording—based on the most respected edition of Shakespeare’s classic—expertly produced by the Folger Theatre, is perfect for students, teachers, and the everyday listener.

Surprisingly Entertaining

I had to read for an assingment and did not expect to like it but actually really enjoyed it. The actors were really good and the reading brought to life and helped me pay attention

Whimsical story, dramatize actor performance.

All i have to say is the actors made the story come to life. Absolutely perfectly performed. Its like watching a Broadway play but in audiobook format.

A Mid Summer Nights Dream

Was tremendous. The readers were great and very professional. A great play to listen to and see. Tks

Perfect for audio

Shakespeare was obviously written for the stage so audio-only is a tall order, especially on text which is already so difficult to parse. This performance does a great job!

a yearly listen

honestly out of all the plays around winter I have for last couple years listen to this at least once