The goddess is also referenced indirectly in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

* Midsummer is celebrated in Finland and Sweden on the third Friday in June.

* St John's Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations ( although this is not the astronomical summer solstice, see June 20 ) ( Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe ), and its related observances:

* St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations ( although this is not the real summer solstice, see June 20 ) ( Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe ):

The Gaelic Otherworld is seen as closer at the times of dusk and dawn, therefore this is a special time to the aos sí, as are some festivals such as Samhain, Beltane and Midsummer.

Midsummer takes place over the shortest night of the year, which is the summer solstice, or on a nearby date that varies with tradition.

Theseus is a prominent character as the Duke of Athens in William Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

* William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed and his play The Merchant of Venice is published.

" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, whose nature has been so clearly fixed in the English-speaking imagination that, as Katherine Briggs has remarked, " it no longer seems natural to talk as Robert Burton does in the Anatomie of Melancholy of a puck instead of ' Puck '".

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream that was based on the ancient figure in English mythology, also called Puck.

Numerous people that have read A Midsummer Night's Dream appear confused about whether Puck's intentions are deliberately done to try to mock and insult others for his own amusements, or because he is generally careless.

NYC Midsummer or Swedish Midsummer is a Swedish midsummer celebration organized since 1996 in one of New York City's parks on the Friday afternoon close to the June solstice, or St John's Day.

Midsummer is one of the year's great family holidays in the Scandinavian countries, since long before the introduction of Christianity.

Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Oberon is named after the mythical king of the fairies who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The feast day of Saint John the Baptist or Midsummer was a very popular event in the Ancien régime of France, and it is still celebrated as a religious feast day in several countries, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the juice of the heartsease is a love potion and " on sleeping eyelids laid, will make a man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees.

As a special custom in Finland, the flag is flown at Midsummer from 6 pm of Midsummer eve until 9 pm of Midsummer's day.

The poem also contains allusions to the Book of Revelation in its description of New Jerusalem and to the paradise of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In the medieval agricultural year, Lammas also marked the end of the hay harvest that had begun after Midsummer.

Watt also notes that some of these elements appear in many of his works, such as Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream, and had a deep impact on Shakespeare ’ s writing.

For the northern solstice, Christian cultures celebrate the feast of St. John from June 23 to 24 ( see St. John's Eve, Ivan Kupala Day, Midsummer ), while Neopagans observe Midsummer, also known as Litha.

* June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha.

* June 20 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer

* June 21 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer

It was also briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the form of a malapropism accidentally using the names Helen and Limander in the place of Hero and Leander.

He also appeared in several Royal Court Theatre productions, including A Midsummer Night's Dream as Quince.

Midsummer is also celebrated as the day of the Finnish flag.

The theme of forbidden love is also present in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( albeit a less tragic and dark representation ) in that a girl, Hermia, is not able to marry the man she loves, Lysander, because her father Egeus despises him and wishes for her to marry Demetrius, and meanwhile Hermia and Lysander's confidant, Helena, is in love with Demetrius.

The volume also features a copy of the original series outline and other bonus features, such as a new introduction by the president of DC Comics, a new afterword, and a reproduction of the original comic draft and notes for " A Midsummer Night's Dream ".

Titania's lullaby in A Midsummer Night's Dream also asks Philomel to " sing in our sweet lullaby.

* Oberon, the King of Amber, is also the name of King of the Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream, although Shakespeare did not invent the character.

It has seen the premières of several works by Britten ( A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1960 ; Death in Venice in 1973 ) and also Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy in 1968, The Io Passion in 2004 and The Corridor in 2009.

Other examples of nocturnes include the one for orchestra from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1848 ), the set of three for orchestra and female choir by Claude Debussy ( who also wrote one for solo piano ) and the first movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 ( 1948 ) by Dmitri Shostakovich.

In Finland bonfires are tradition on Midsummer Eve and easter, also in midst of may celebrations.

Festa Junina was introduced to Northeastern Brazil by the Portuguese for whom St John's day ( also celebrated as Midsummer Day in several European countries ), on 24 June, is one of the oldest and most popular celebrations of the year.

It also seen by some critics as a romantic comedy, which depicts how seriously young people take love, and how foolishly it makes them behave, ( similar to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ); in She Stoops to Conquer, Kate ’ s stooping and Marlow ’ s nervousness are good examples of romantic comedy.

He also directed the operas The Trojans in 1957 and A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1960.

Nestling just behind the Observatory is the garden of the former Astronomer Royal, a peaceful secluded space which is good for picnics and also sometimes used by theatre groups ( Midsummer Night's Dream, etc .).

Midsummer Courts were sometimes presided over personally by the Lords of Mann, but more often by his representatives, as the Lords of Mann were often British aristocrats or monarchs who were not resident in the island.

Golowan ( sometimes also Goluan or Gol-Jowan ) is the Cornish language word for the Midsummer celebrations in Cornwall, UK: widespread prior to the late 19th century and most popular in the Penwith area and in particular Penzance and Newlyn.