When was A Midsummer Night's Dream written?

Question

thanks!

Answer 1

According to David Bevington's The Complete Works of Shakespeare, about 1594-95.

Answer 2

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

It is not known exactly when A Midsummer Night's Dream was written or first performed, but, on the basis of topical references and an allusion to Spenser's Epithalamion, it is usually dated in 1595 or 1596. Some have theorized that the play might have been written for an aristocratic wedding (numerous such weddings took place in 1596), while others suggest it was written for the Queen to celebrate the feast day of St. John. However, no concrete evidence exists to support either theory. In any case, it would have been performed at The Theatre and, later, The Globe in London. Also, Croatian comediograph Marin Držić wrote sometime in the middle 16th century "Grižula" , a comedy that shares many similarities with A Midsummer Night's Dream and is considered by some as its predecessor and influence on Shakespeare.[citation needed]

Some features of the plot and characters can be traced to elements of earlier mythologically-based literature; for example, the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is told in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the transformation of Bottom into an *** is descended from Apuleius' The Golden ***. Lysander was also an ancient Greek warlord while Theseus and Hippolyta were respectively the Duke of Athens and Queen of the Amazons. In addition, Shakespeare could have been working on Romeo and Juliet at about the same time that he wrote the Dream, and it is possible to see Pyramus and Thisbe as a comic reworking of the tragic play. A further, seldom noted source is The Knight's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.[1]

The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on Oct. 8, 1600 by the bookseller Thomas Fisher, who published the first quarto edition later that year. A second quarto was printed in 1619 by William Jaggard, as part of his so-called False Folio. The play next appeared in print in the First Folio of 1623. The title page of Q1 states that the play was "sundry times publicly acted" prior to 1600. The first performance known with certainty occurred at Court on January 1, 1604.

Answer 3

During the midsummer.

Answer 4

im guessing that it was during the midsummer but im not sure.

Answer 5

sometime in the 1590s

Answer 6

like 1600s i think.
i dunnoo.