A Midsummer Night's Dream

Revise and learn about the plot of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream with BBC Bitesize KS3 English Literature.

There are many themes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Explore the themes of love, appearance and reality, and order and disorder - how they affect characters and influence the story.

There are many characters in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Take a look at the main ones identifying their key attributes and relationships and their part in the play.

Shakespeare is renowned for the language he used and invented new words. Explore the way he uses rhythm and rhyme and imagery and metaphor in the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

There are many different ways to interpret and perform Shakespeare’s plays. Watch the videos and decide how you would perform the three scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.