A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) presents an authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s classic comedy. The play stages the workings of love, featuring Theseus and Hippolyta, figures from mythology, about to marry in Athens. Young men and women in the woods sort themselves into couples but encounter a series of romantic entanglements and triangles. Meanwhile, in fairyland, Oberon and Titania battle over a boy; Oberon uses magic to turn Bottom’s head into that of a donkey by a mischievous “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. The play concludes with the inept staging of Pyramus and Thisbe. This edition includes freshly edited text based on the best early printed version, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, an introduction to Shakespeare’s language, an essay by a leading scholar providing a modern perspective, and new images from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The book is part of the trusted and widely used Folger Shakespeare Library series for students and general readers.