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    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Written by William Shakespeare

    Narrated by Erin Bateman

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    Enjoy this InAudio unabridged presentation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a fresh new audiobook of the charming and amusing tale of a wedding gone awry.

    This dreamy comedy is entrancing and full of humor and wit, and is sure to keep listeners entertained as they follow the plights of the cast of characters.

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s most well-known comedies, and is arguably one of his most beloved plays. The play tells the tale of the misadventures of the people gathering to participate in their marriage of the Duke of Athens and Hippolyta, former queen of the Amazons. The story is told between four interconnecting plot-lines and with a plethora of zany characters, including an earnest theater troupe, a fairy king, a mischievous spirit, and many others. Follow the story as the characters experience humorous confusion, magical love potions, and unexpected transformations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpotify Audiobooks
    Release dateJan 17, 2020
    ISBN9781094244693
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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