"Euripides' Bacchae and Shakespeare's Theseus in a Midsummer Night's Dream" 
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo212/
Author:
	Sokol, B. J.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Notes and Queries 70, no. 3 (2023): 166–70.
DOI:
	10.1093/notesj/gjad044
Annotation:
	Suggests that Theseus's rejection of a "celebratory interlude depicting the dismembering of Orpheus" in act 5 of Midsummer Night's Dream echoes Plutarch's Life of Theseus and Euripides' Bacchae.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Euripides; Plutarch
Tags:
	A Midsummer Night's Dream, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare's Sources and Influences on Shakespeare
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo212