Here are some resources to help guide your way into A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
- Midsummer resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
- Watch a synopsis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Thug Notes or SparkNotes.
- The Royal Shakespeare Company has excellent resources for Midsummer.
- The 1968 version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Diana Rigg, Helen Mirren, and others is on YouTube.
- The Show Must Go Online did a wonderful—and hilarious—version of Midsummer recently.
- If you want to pay for a rental, might I suggest the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s streaming option for Midsummer? It begins July 9.
- Maybe you’d prefer dance? Here’s a full ballet version of Midsummer. Or, if you just want the famous Overture, there it is.
Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.