Films and Adaptations
Silent Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)

Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle. A Midsummer Night's Dream. (1935)

Peter Hall. A Midsummer Night's Dream. (1968)

Peter Weir. Dead Poets' Society. (1989)

Adrian Noble. Midsummer Night's Dream. (1996)
Ross MacGibbon. A Midsummer Night's Dream. (1996)

Michael Hoffman. A Midsummer Night's Dream. (1999)

Christine Edzard. Children's Midsummer Night's Dream. (2001)

Ed Fraiman. Shakespeare Retold: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (BBC, 2007)

Criticism

Coursen, H. R. “Style in Dream: The ART Version.” Watching Shakespeare on Television. Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 1993. 33-56.

Crowl, Samuel. “Bankside Shakespeare: Edzard’s As You Like It and The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 155-169.

---. “Militant Classicist: Peter Hall and Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen. Athens: Ohio UP, 1992. 81-101.

---. “Shakespeare and Hollywood Revisited: The Dreams of Noble and Hoffman.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 170-186.

Donaldson, Peter S. “‘Two of Both Kinds’: Modernism and Patriarchy in Peter Hall’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory. Eds. Lisa S. Sparks and Courtney Lehmann. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp., 2002. 43-58.

Frye, Northrop. "The Argument of Comedy." In English Institute Essays. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1949, pp. 58-73; repr. in Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism. Edited by Edward Dean. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969 [1957], pp. 80-89. ISBN: 9780195006889.

Habicht, Werner. "Shakespeare and the German Imagination." In Shakespeare: World Views. Edited by Heather Kerr, Robin Eaden, and Madge Mitton. Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 1996, pp. 87-101. ISBN: 9780874135657.

Harris, Diana. "The Diva and the Donkey: Hoffman's Use of Opera in A Midsummer Night's Dream" MS.

Jackson, Russell. "A Shooting Script for the Reinhardt-Dieterle Dream: the War with the Amazons, Bottom's Wife, and other Missing 'Scenes.'" Shakespeare Bulletin 16/4 (Fall, 1998): 19-41.

Jorgens, Jack J. “Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 36-50.

---. “Peter Hall’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 51-65.

Lanier, Douglas. “Nostalgia and Theatricality: The Fate of the Shakespearean Stage in the Midsummer Night’s Dream of Hoffman, Noble, and Edzard.” Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. London: Routledge, 2003.154-172.

Lehmann. Courtney. “Authors, players, and the Shakespearean Auteur-Function in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002. 55-88.

Manvell, Roger. “Shakespeare and the Silent Film.” Shakespeare and the Film. London: Praeger Publishers, 1971. -22.

McGuire, Philip C. "Hippolyta's Silence and the Poet's Pen," In Speechless Dialect. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 9780520053731.

Montrose, Louis. "A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Shaping Fatasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form." In "Rewriting the Renaissance" The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Margaret Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan and Nancy Vickers. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 65-87. ISBN: 9780226243146.

Rothwell, Kenneth S. (1999). “Shakespeare in Love, in Love with Shakespeare: The Adoration after the Millenium.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 248-274. (incl. brief discussions of Shakespeare in Love, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ten Things I Hate About You, The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus)

---. (1999). “Shakespeare in Silence: From Stage to Screen.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 1-26.

Willson, Robert. "'Ill met by moonlight': Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Musical Screwball Comedy." Journal of Popular Film 5 (1976): 185-97.