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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Dramaturgy | Penn State Centre Stage's 2021 Production | Directed by Sam Osheroff

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  • Production History
    • Theatre and Playgoing in Early Modern London
    • First Production
    • Subsequent Production History
    • Recent Productions and Dramatic Adaptations
      • Dominic Dromgoole’s 2013 Production
      • Julie Taymor’s 2013 Production
      • Emma Rice’s 2016 Production
      • Nicholas Hytner’s 2019 Production
      • Nathan Winkelstein’s 2020 Production
      • Michael Hoffman’s 1999 Film
  • The Playwright: Shakespeare
    • Biography
    • Works
    • Evolution of Shakespeare’s Writing Style
    • Chronology of Plays
  • The Play
    • Sources
    • Scene Breakdown
    • Characters By Scene
    • Timeline
    • Writing Style
    • Why This Play Now?
  • Literary Analysis
    • Title
    • Setting
    • Topics and Themes
      • Patriarchal Authority
      • Love & Desire
      • Transformation & Change
      • Metatheatre
    • Critical Theory
      • Feminism
      • Queer Theory
      • Post-Colonialism
      • Marxism
      • Environmentalism
    • Why This Play Now?
  • Historical Context
    • The Elizabethan Era
  • Folktales and Folklore
    • Robin Goodfellow
    • Changelings
    • Fairy Lovers
    • Fairy Interactions with Mortals
  • Greek Mythology
    • Pyramus and Thisbe
    • Amazon Women and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons
    • Theseus
  • The Natural World
    • Midsummer’s Day and May Day
    • The Moon
    • Climate
  • Dreams
    • Renaissance Theories of Dreams
    • Modern Theories of Dreams, Sleeping, and Memory
    • Dreams in “Dream”
  • Essays From a Dramaturg
    • Reference Visuals
      • Robert Wilson
      • Julie Taymor
      • Weimar Republic Cabarets
    • Taylor Swift and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
    • Thisbe’s Death
  • Annotations
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  • About

The Play

August 12, 2021
Arushi Grover
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