A Midsummer Night's Gene

1997 novel by Andrew Harman
0-09-978871-3OCLC43236604

A Midsummer Night's Gene is a science fiction parody novel of Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, written by Andrew Harman and published in 1997 by Random House. It reflects the plot of the original play only slightly. It concentrates on two of the fairies and follows their attempts to play with genetic engineering in a modern English town.

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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Characters
Lovers
  • Theseus and Hippolyta
  • Oberon and Titania
  • Hermia and Lysander
  • Helena and Demetrius
Mechanicals
  • Nick Bottom
  • Peter Quince
  • Francis Flute
  • Robin Starveling
  • Tom Snout
  • Snug
Others
  • Puck
  • Egeus
  • Philostrate
Productions
Film
  • 1935
  • 1959
  • 1968
  • 1999
  • 2017
Television
Stage
  • 1970
Adaptations
Film
Literature
  • A Midsummer Tempest (1974)
  • Lords and Ladies (1992)
  • A Midsummer Night's Gene (1997)
  • A Midsummer's Nightmare (1997)
  • The Great Night (2011)
Music
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1842, Mendelssohn)
  • "Wedding March" (1842, Mendelssohn)
  • Three Shakespeare Songs (1951)
  • Symphony No. 8 (1992, Henze)
  • Il Sogno (2004)
Opera
  • The Fairy-Queen (1692)
  • Pyramus and Thisbe (1745)
  • Puck (1949)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960, opera)
  • The Enchanted Island (2011)
Stage
  • The Triumph of Beauty (1646, masque)
  • St. John's Eve (1852, play)
  • The Park (1983, play)
  • The Donkey Show (1999, musical)
  • The Dreaming (2001, musical)
  • The Lovers (2022, musical)
Comics
  • The Sandman: Dream Country (1991)
  • Auberon
  • Faerie
  • Titania
Art
Ballet
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962)
  • The Dream (1964)
Television
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