when was midsummer night's dream first performed
A Midsummer Night's Dream The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers' Company on 8 October 1600 by the bookseller Thomas Fisher, who published the first quarto edition later that year.[4] A second quarto was printed in 1619 by William Jaggard, as part of his so-called False Folio.[4] The play next appeared in print in the First Folio of 1623. The title page of Q1 states that the play was "sundry times publickely acted" prior to 1600.[5] The first performance known with certainty occurred at Court on 1 January 1605.
Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Puck is a clever, mischievous fairy, sprite or jester that personifies the wise knave. In the play, Shakespeare introduces Puck as the "shrewd and knavish sprite" and "that merry wanderer of the night". Puck is the one who is first introduced in the fairies' story and creates the drama of the lovers' story by breaking up a young couple lost in an enchanted forest, as well as by replacing Bottom's head with that of an ass. Similarly, Bottom is performing in a play intended to be presented as a lover's story, as well as interacting with Titania twice in the opening dialogue of Act 2 Scene 1 as "he".