Special Introduction to the play by the editor, Wolfgang Clemen, University of Munich General discussion of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. Special note on the sources on which Shakespeare drew for A Midsummer Night’s D ream; Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by William Hazlitt, Edward Dowden, Enid Welsford, Henry Alonzo Myers, John Russell Brown. Text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type. Name of each speaker given in full Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text. Textual note. Extensive bibliography