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On 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

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This essay on Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is by Arthur Machen, and forms chapter eight of the collected essays published in 'Dog and Duck'(1924). The chapter investigates the influence of folklore on Shakespeare's presentation of fairies.

View the text online:
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/
Date Published: 16 July 2012
Writer:
Arthur Machen
In Collection(s): Early Modern Drama on the Page and Stage, William Shakespeare, Fantasy Literature
Keywords:
shakespeare, Essays, fairies, Plays, midsummer night's dream
Source:
eBooks@Adelaide
Cite: On 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by Arthur Machen at http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/midsummer-nights-dream. Published on 16 July 2012. Accessed on 19 November 2024.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: On 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/) by Arthur Machen, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.