A comedy in five acts, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was written about 1595–96 and first published in 1600. A revised version was published in the First Folio of Shakespeare’s written works in 1623.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is considered one of Shakespeare’s most popular works.
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare also spelled Shakspere, byname Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon, (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon), English poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.