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A Midsummer Night's Dream a play by William Shakespeare

Projeto apresentado à Disciplina de Língua Inglesa 3

São Gonçalo
2012

INTRODUCTION

1. William Shakespeare / Early life ..................... 3

2. Parts................................................................... 4

2.1 A Midsummer Night's Dream......................... 6 2.2 Characters...................................................... 6

2.2.1 Synopsis....................................................... 7

2.2.2 Sources and date ........................................ 9

2.2.3 Publication and text.................................... 9

2.2.4 Bibliography................................................. 10

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, two epitaphs on a man named John Combe, one epitaph on Elias James, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to