# A Midsummer Night's Dream

**Author:** William Shakespeare
**Grade range:** Grades 8–12
**Age range:** 13–18
**First published:** 1600
**Page count:** 240
**Genre:** Drama
**ISBN-13:** `9780743477543`
**ISBN-10:** `0743477545`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-midsummer-nights-dream
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Shakespeare's comedy tangles four Athenian lovers, a troupe of amateur actors, and a quarreling fairy king and queen in an enchanted forest where a mischievous sprite's love potion sends everything awry. By morning, order and pairings are restored. One of the most-taught Shakespeare plays in grades 8-12 for its accessibility, humor, and play-within-a-play structure.

## Themes

- love
- illusion and reality
- marriage and class
- the supernatural

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