A Midsummer Night's Dream: Illustrated and AUGMENTED REALITY enabled

By William Shakespeare and Living Popups

This is the original text of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream - now with augmented reality enabled illustrations added!

As you read the play, William, Ruby, Helena, Peter Quince, Nick Bottom and Puck will pop up from the pages of the book and help explain what's going on and help you understand, rememb

• Language: English
• Publisher: Living Popups, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798986541198

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

ILLUSTRATED AND AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Illustrated by

LIVING POPUPS

Living Popups Living Popups

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

Illustrated and

AUGMENTED REALITY

enabled

Augmented reality popups

featuring the voices of:

Shakespeare - Tom Payne

Jade - Andréa Bendewald

Helena - Anjli Mohindra

Nick Bottom - Nikesh Patel

Peter Quince - Geoffrey Owens

Puck - Sacha Dhawan

Produced by Living Popups, Inc.:

Cheryl Bayer

Thomas Bergstig

Sara Delgado

Jamie Dixon

Isaac Middleton

Austin Tichenor

Ken Pellegrino

Nigel Rodriguez

Dee Ryan

Erwin Umali

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WELCOME

Welcome to the Living Popups illustrated and augmented reality enabled printing of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.

Written in 1595, this comedy is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved and enduring plays. Set in Athens and consisting of several sub-plots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta, the story contains a play within a play, fairies and a donkey.

The text is formatted as a play with the character name followed by their lines. Shakespeare was quite spare in his stage direction but those instructions to the actors that do appear are printed in italics. A frequent one is:

Exeunt

ˈ eksēˌənt / verb - A stage direction in a printed play to indicate that a group of characters leave the stage.

The text is the original play. At key points, AR enabled illustrations come to life on a mobile device running the Living Popups AR Reading Companion App*. The popups give context and additional background to help you understand the story and give important and interesting context.

At the start of each chapter, characters from the story will give you insights into what is coming and at the end of each chapter they will challenge you with an interactive question.

Simply start the app, point the camera at the illustrations and let the characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream take it from there!

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Act 1 Scene I

Scene II

Act 2 Scene I

Scene II

Act 3 Scene I

Scene II

Act 4 Scene I

Scene II

Act 5 Scene I

Thank You

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ACT 1

SCENE I. Athens. A room in the Palace of Theseus

Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate and Attendants.

THESEUS

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon; but oh, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame or a dowager, Long withering out a young man’s revenue.

HIPPOLYTA

Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities.

THESEUS

Go, Philostrate, Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth; Turn melancholy forth to funerals; The pale companion is not for our pomp.

Exeunt Philostrate.

Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword, And won thy love doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling.

Enter Egeus, Hermia, Lysander and Demetrius.

EGEUS

Happy be Theseus, our renownèd Duke!

THESEUS

Thanks, good Egeus. What’s the news with thee?

EGEUS

Full of vexation come I, with complaint Against my child, my daughter Hermia. Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord, This man hath my consent to marry her. Stand forth, Lysander. And, my gracious Duke, This man hath bewitch’d the bosom of my child. Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes, And interchang’d love-tokens with my child. Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung, With feigning voice, verses of feigning love; And stol’n the impression of her fantasy With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits, Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats (messengers Of strong prevailment in unharden’d youth) With cunning hast thou filch’d my daughter’s heart, Turn’d her obedience (which is due to me) To stubborn harshness. And, my gracious Duke, Be it so she will not here before your grace Consent to marry with Demetrius, I beg the ancient privilege of Athens: As she is mine I may dispose of her; Which shall be either to this gentleman Or to her death, according to our law Immediately provided in that case.

THESEUS

What say you, Hermia? Be advis’d, fair maid. To you your father should be as a god; One that compos’d your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure, or disfigure it. Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.

HERMIA

So is Lysander.

THESEUS

In himself he is. But in this kind, wanting your father’s voice, The other must be held the worthier.

HERMIA

I would my father look’d but with my eyes.

THESEUS

Rather your eyes