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    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Written by William Shakespeare

    Narrated by Multiple Narrators

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    Perhaps the most popular of all of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream humorously celebrates the vagaries of love. The approaching wedding festivities of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride-to-be, Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, are delightfully crisscrossed with in-again, off-again romances of two young pairs of Athenian lovers; a fateful rivalry between the King and Queen of the Fairies; and the theatrical aspirations of a bumbling troupe of Athenian laborers. It all ends happily in wedding-night revelry complete with a play-within-a-play presented by the laborers to the ecstatic amusement of all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateSep 7, 2016
    ISBN9781518934339
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is not known but is traditionally 23 April, St George's Day. Aged 18, he married a Stratford farmer's daughter, Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. A member of the leading theatre group in London, the Chamberlain's Men, which built the Globe Theatre and frequently performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare wrote 36 plays and much poetry besides. He died in 1616.

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    • 5/5
      A well written play by Shakespeare, once again showing his genius. Weaving three plots into one play. Complex, but not too difficult to follow. This audiobook does the play justice, and makes the reading more enjoyable.

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