A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Macmillan Modern Shakespeare Series is a large format illustrated text which is an ideal and easy introduction to Shakespeare’s plays. The dominant theme in A Midsummer Nights Dream is love a subject to which Shakespeare returns constantly in his comedies. Shakespeare explores how people tend to fall in love with those who appear beautiful to them. Until about 1608 he mainly wrote tragedies including Hamlet Othello King Lear and Macbeth. Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus—his last major tragedies contain some of his finest poetry. A true genius Shakespeare’s popular characters and plots are studied performed reinterpreted and discussed till today.