This Norton Critical Edition includes: * Shakespeare's most popular comedy--with its unforgettable love triangles, woodland fairies, and magic--based on Grace Ioppolo's conflated text (Q1 with F1 variants) and accompanied by her introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. * Five illustrations. * Seven sources for the play, including those by Geoffrey Chaucer, Plutarch, and Lucius Apuleius. * Fifteen wide-ranging critical assessments, including ones by Jan Kott, Margo Hendricks, and Peter Brook. * Adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream by Robert Cox and Henry Purcell and Elkanah Settle. * A Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.