PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
I. The text
2. Date and occasion: with consideration of the
poetic style
3. Sources and antecedents
II. THE PLAY
I. The exposition
2. Design and plot
3. Characters and comedy
4. Lyricism, music and dance
5. Setting: woodland and fairyland; moon
6. The principal themes
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
APPENDIX I Source materials
APPENDIX II Four textual cruces
APPENDIX III The mislined verse in Qi, v. i.
APPENDIX IV Quince's Prologue (v. i. Io8--I6)
rightly punctuated