A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together
aristocrats workers and fairies in a wood outside Athens and from there the enchantment
begins. In the introduction to this edition Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams
and dreamers and to Shakespeare's construction of a world of night and shadows. Both here and
in his commentary he explores the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide
range of interpretations of which it is capable.
