A Midsummer Night's Dream
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire.
Date Published:
5 November 2012
Writer:
Source:
Contributors:
Emma Smith
In Collection(s):
William Shakespeare, Fantasy Literature: Further Thinking
Keywords:
shakespeare, criticism, literature, english, language, play, theatre, #greatwriters, Teaching, lesson, Key Stage 5
Cite:
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/midsummer-nights-dream-0. Published on 05 November 2012. Accessed on 14 May 2026.
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