A Midsummer Nights Dream, William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Nights Dream, William Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A BBC Radio Shakespeare production

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Becky Simpson, David Threlfall, Full Cast, Samuel West, Sylvestra Le Touzel

Unabridged: 2 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2004

Synopsis

In this BBC full-cast production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena run to the woods and stumble into a life separate from time itself.

Fairy magic wreaks havoc and midsummer madness takes over as lovers tread the delicate line between fantasy and reality.

Sylvestra le Touzel stars as Titania in this delightful comic fantasy, with Samuel West as Lysander, David Threlfall as Theseus, Richard Griffiths as Bottom and Becky Simpson as Puck.

BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly-formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.

In this acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the modern day.

About 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on September 17, 2025

That Helena is a bitch. I know the big draw for this play is all the fairy goings-on, but upon re-reading/re-listening to it for the umpteenth time, I was more interested in the insane inner workings of Helena's mind. Ok. Get this. Hermia and Lysander are in love. But Hermia's dad wants her to marry D......more

Goodreads review by jessica on April 25, 2020

how to flirt, shakespeare style, a midsummer nights dream edition:- elope with your love in a fairy wood - follow your friends into the fairy wood with your ex-fiancé, who you still pine over even though he loves another woman - become entranced by magic flower juice and chase after the wrong girl unt......more

Goodreads review by Bill on July 21, 2021

Re-reading the play this time, I couldn't stop thinking about The Magic Flute. Like Mozart's opera, Shakespeare's play may have a silly plot composed of fanciful, seemingly arbitrary elements, yet, through the power of absolute artistic mastery, the framework of what might otherwise be nothing but a......more

Goodreads review by Emma on August 13, 2020

"And with her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him. How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes." i felt that Hermia......more

Goodreads review by Henry on February 06, 2021

One of Shakespeare's most popular comic plays though a figment of the imagination an illusion, a delusion in actuality that's the pity... such a delectable world to inhabit. Essentially a love story between two couples, a thin plot device in a mythical Athens which never was . Lysander loves his gir......more

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