A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Context and Things to Think Over

William Shakespeare

Stratford-Upon-Avon & London, England

Anne Hathaway

Elizabethan England

Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabethan England, Cont.

Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre, Cont.

London to Athens

Some Things to Think About

•Dreams/Imagination vs. Reality

•Moon vs. Sun/Night vs. Day/Women vs. Men

•Eyes motif (what is it trying to tell us?)