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Excerpt from On Ten Plays of Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream belongs, probably, to the winter of 1595, and was made, it has been said, to celebrate a marriage. This may well be so; it has a bridal atmosphere. Though the affairs of love are fantastically tangled in it and their music jangled, even in fairyland, yet in the end the tangle is resolved, and the marriagebells are tuneful. It is a comedy of love. About four years before, in 1591, Shakespeare had written a tragedy of love in Romeo and Juliet. To begin this book with the earlier play would have been more historical, but not wiser. Romeo and Juliet is the kind of love-tragedy a young man writes in order to dramatise his pleasure with some imagined sorrow. Shakespeare did not write it out of any personal gloom or any deep knowledge of the trouble of the world. It was written to try his eager and happy hand at tragedy; and a youthful exuberance frequently emerges through its sorrows. Few things are more different than the tragic spirit in Romeo and Juliet, which was in the story but not in Shakespeare, than the tragic spirit in Lear and Othello, which was in himself and then embodied in the tragedies. The real Shakespeare at this time was full to the brim with the joyous spirit of youth. And Mid summer Night's Dream represents the actual temper of his soul far more truly than Romeo and Juliet. I have therefore chosen to begin with it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.