Four lovers, a troupe of bumbling actors, and quarreling fairies tangle in a moonlit wood outside Athens.
Books that mention A Midsummer Night's Dream (11)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “A local habitation and a name. --SHAKESPEARE, _Midsummer-Night's Dream_.”
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper: “Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury."--Midsummer Night's Dream.”
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume: “Fitzgerald," said the young lady with a smile in her pretty black eyes, "that you are not a student of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.”
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “Perhaps next week I shall have some more books, "The Tempest," "A Midsummer Night's Dream"”
Kenilworth by Walter Scott: “QUINCE. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring. --MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.”
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: “anybody can flip through a Midsummer-Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet, or, perhaps, the Sonnets and take his pick”
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: ““This general impression only amuses me,” he wrote, “for I think that I shall prove as gentle a lion as he who played that part before the Duke, in the ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream.’””
Shogun by James Clavell: “Perhaps we'd see The Taming of the Shrew or A Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet.”
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: “And see our moon-light revels, go with us. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “Is all the counsel that we two have shared-- The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us--O, and is all forgot? _Midsummer-Night's Dream._”
Light, Wind and Dreams by Atsushi Nakajima: “To give clear expression to things that have no name or place, as A Midsummer Night's Dream puts it, is the work of the poet and writer. By that measure Stevenson was surely a born storyteller. [auto-translated]”