A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare · c. 1595 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

Four young Athenians run into the wood outside the city to escape a forced marriage, pursuing and pursued by each other, and watched by quarrelling fairies. Oberon's love-juice is put on the wrong eyes, while a company of tradesmen rehearses a tragedy nearby and their weaver is given the head of an ass. Love's arbitrariness as midsummer magic.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Metamorphoses
  Ovid · 8 CE · Poem
• ↓ Wise Children
  Angela Carter · 1991 CE · Novel — alludes to this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Cosmicomics
  Italo Calvino · 1965 CE · Short Story

  52% · 12 shared
  ComedyFantasyLoveTransformationLoverTricksterFrame NarrativeThe MoonMetamorphosisvs SelfComicMythic
• Metamorphoses
  Ovid · 8 CE · Poem

  49% · 11 shared
  FantasyLoveTransformationLoverTricksterShapeshifterFrame NarrativeMetamorphosisFlowersvs SelfMythic
• Raven Steals the Light
  Haida / Tlingit myth · c. 1700 CE · Myth / Legend

  49% · 11 shared
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• The Nanabozho Cycle
  Anishinaabe myth · c. 1800 CE · Myth / Legend

  47% · 11 shared
  ComedyFantasyTransformationArt & CreationTricksterShapeshifterThe ForestMetamorphosisvs SupernaturalComicMythic
• The Comic Illusion
  Pierre Corneille · 1636 CE · Play

  47% · 11 shared
  PlayComedyLoveAppearance vs RealityArt & CreationLoverTricksterComic ResolutionFrame Narrativevs SelfComic
• Singin' in the Rain
  Donen & Kelly · 1952 CE · Film

  47% · 9 shared
  ComedyLoveAppearance vs RealityTransformationArt & CreationLoverTricksterComic ResolutionComic