How you explore A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 30 characters, 7 places, 12 objects and 7 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 38 passages of A Midsummer Night’s Dream sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as William Shakespeare wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on William Shakespeare instead.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Law and Flight
- The Fairy Court's Quarrel
- Magic Strikes the Wrong Man
- Bottom's Transformation
- Both Men Enchanted
- Night's Correction
- Athens Restored
The author's pen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The passages themselves, William Shakespeare's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Waiting For The Weddingch. 1
- Egeus Claims Hermiach. 1
- Egeus Claims Hermiach. 1
- Hermia Refuses the Yokech. 1
- The Course of True Lovech. 1
- The Lovers’ Secret Flightch. 1
- Love Looks With the Mindch. 1
- Bottom Wants the Tyrant Partch. 1
- Puck’s Merry Mischiefch. 2
- Oberon and Titania Quarrelch. 2
- Our Dissension Alters Seasonsch. 2
- For Her Sakech. 2
- Cupid’s Bolt and the Flowerch. 2
- Oberon’s Enchanted Plotch. 2
- Oberon’s Love Charmch. 2
- Titania’s Enchanted Sleepch. 2
- Lie Further Offch. 2
- Puck Charms the Sleeperch. 2
- Lysander Repents Hermiach. 2
- Hermia Wakes Alonech. 2
The characters of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Theseusmajor
- Hippolytamajor
- Hermiamajor
- Lysandermajor
- Helenamajor
- Demetriusmajor
- Nick Bottommajor
- Oberonmajor
- Titaniamajor
- Puck / Robin Goodfellowmajor
- Egeussupporting
- Philostratesupporting
- Peter Quincesupporting
- Francis Flutesupporting
- Snugsupporting
- Tom Snoutsupporting
The locations in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Athenscity
- Palace of Theseuspalace
- Quince’s Househouse
- Wood Near Athenswood
- Duke’s Oaktree
- Titania’s Bowerbower
- Forest Sleeping Groundforest clearing
The core concepts in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Law Creates the Disorder It Tries to Prevent
- Love as Irrational Certainty
- Imagination Makes Unreal Things Socially Real
- Performance Reveals Truth Through Failure
- Transformation Is Comic but Not Harmless
- The Dream Persists After Waking
The objects of note in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Athenian Law
- Love-Tokens from Lysander
- Quince’s Scroll / Play Parts
- Pyramus and Thisbe Script
- Love-in-Idleness Flower
- Dian’s Bud
- Bottom’s Ass Head
- The Moon
- Moonshine’s Lantern
- Wall’s Roughcast
- Pyramus’s Sword
- Thisbe’s Mantle
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