A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Video Introduction

Thank you to Misha Teramura for introducing A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Misha Teramura is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on early modern English theater, with a special interest in lost plays. His articles have appeared in such journals as Shakespeare QuarterlyEnglish Literary HistoryThe Review of English Studies, and The Chaucer Review, covering such topics as Shakespeare’s sources, Elizabethan espionage, pseudo-medieval prophecies, early modern theories of friendship, and the Renaissance reception of the African playwright Terence. His current book project revisits Shakespeare’s use of Chaucer as a way to complicate recent assessments of Shakespeare as a “literary dramatist.” 

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Additional Resources

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Dan HainsworthHere are some resources to help guide your way into A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: From the Folger Archive

Enjoy these images of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.

[A series of silhouettes illustrating Midsummer night’s dream] [graphic] / P. Konewka ; A. Vogel sc.
Oberon and Titania, Oberon: What thou seest when thou dost wake… Midsummer night’s dream, act II scene III [i.e. 2] [graphic] / V.W. Bromley, pinxt ; C. Mottram sculpt.
Midsummer night’s dream, Puck: On the ground sleep sound … [graphic] / [Louis Rhead].
Midsummer night’s dream, figure of Oberon and Titania [graphic] / [William Blake].
Midsummer night’s dream [a set of 65 original drawings] [graphic] / Fanny Railton.
Sommernachtstraum [graphic] : 5 Originallithographie n in farbe / Jiří Trnka.
Scenes from A midsummer night’s dream at Her Majesty’s Theatre [graphic] / Fred Pegram.
[Midsummer night’s dream, IV, 1, Titania adorns Bottom with flowers] [graphic] / [Alexandre Bida].
Puck – “Lord what fools these mortals be” [graphic] / Arthur Rackham, ’08.
Midsummer night’s dream, a set of four original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
Midsummer night’s dream, a set of four original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
Midsummer night’s dream, a set of four original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].
Midsummer night’s dream, a set of four original drawings [graphic] / [Byam Shaw].