"Confronting the Past, Dreaming the Future: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Modern Performance" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbl2632/ Author: Crover, Sarah; Khomenko, Natalia. Type: Journal Article Year: 2022 Publication Information: Shakespeare Bulletin 40, no. 3 (2022): 313–27. DOI: 10.1353/shb.2022.0031 Annotation: Discusses Midsummer Night's Dream in modern performance with emphasis on its dealing with “problems of (sexual) consent, misogyny, colonialism, inequity, and ecological disaster.” Offers short introduction to how these issues are defined in play-text’s staging history from nineteenth to twenty-first century and how assembled articles in Shakespeare Bulletin (40.3) explore recent theatrical projects’ “mixed results” on play's "transformative potential." Language: English Tags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Actors, Acting, Directors, Directing, Textual and Bibliographical Studies WSB Update: Spring 2023 WSB Record Number: bbbl2632