The Folger Guide to Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream

The authoritative guide to teaching Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Folger Guide to Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and Shakespeare fans alike.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.

Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.”

The Folger Guide to Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream Includes:
-An explanation of the Folger methodology for teaching Shakespeare
-Scholarly essays from experts in the field
-A five-week breakdown of digestible lesson plans
-Resource links for a deeper dive into the world of Shakespeare

This guide is an essential part of any teacher’s toolkit.

About the author

Teaching Shakespeare Institute; Edited by Peggy O'Brien

Product details

• Assisted by: Peggy O'Brien (Editor), O'Brien Peggy (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2025
• EAN: 9781982105662
• ISBN: 978-1-9821-0566-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 279 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 642 g
• Illustrations: b-w illustrations t-o
• Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Study & learning skills: general, Teaching of a specific subject, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Revision and study guide, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, STUDY AIDS / Study & Test-Taking Skills, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Study and learning skills: general, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General