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Commentary Five

A Dream of Midsummer Part II

Much has been made of the theory that ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was written to celebrate a marriage and performed at a wedding. Suggestions include that of Elizabeth Carey and Thomas, the son of Henry, Lord Berkeley, at the house of the bride’s father, Sir George Carey, in Blackfriars on 19^th February 1596. Her grandfather …