A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century.

Captain Picard's edition of The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works featured an illustration by Henri Fuseli, called Titania, Bottom and the Fairies which featured Titania and Nick Bottom - turned into a donkey - both characters from the play. (TNG: "The Offspring", "Sins of the Father")

When an away team from the USS Enterprise-D was trapped in 1893 San Francisco, the team members claimed to be actors having performed A Midsummer Night's Dream in Milan, London and Paris. Data played Puck, Doctor Crusher a fairy, Riker played Oberon and Mrs. Carmichael was to be Titania. (TNG: "Time's Arrow")

Selected works of William Shakespeare
As You Like It • Hamlet • Henry IV, Part I • Henry IV, Part II • Henry V • Henry VI, Part II • Julius Caesar • King Lear • Macbeth • The Merchant of Venice • A Midsummer Night's Dream • Othello • Richard II • Romeo and Juliet • The Tempest • sonnets

Background Edit

Several plot elements from A Midsummer Night's Dream were incorporated into the teleplay of DS9: "Fascination". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)

Mendelssohn's Wedding March, used in VOY: "Course: Oblivion", was composed for his adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The play was mentioned twice in letters found in the Picard family album. One letter invited Picard to an adaptation which set the story in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. The other quoted the play in relation to the celebration of 400 years since the first landing on the Moon.

External link Edit

• A Midsummer Night's Dream at Wikipedia