Editing A Midsummer Night's Dream (section)

===Literary===
The play was translated into [[Esperanto]] ([[Constructed language|constructed]] [[international auxiliary language]]) by [[Louise Briggs]] in 1920.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-15 |title=Shakespeare in Esperanto |url=https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/blogs/shakespeare-esperanto/ |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Shakespeare Birthplace Trust}}</ref>

[[W. Stanley Moss]] used the quotation "Ill met by moonlight" as the title of his ''[[Ill Met by Moonlight]]'' (1950), a non-fiction book about the [[kidnap of General Kreipe]] during WWII.<ref>{{cite book |last=Garden |first=Robin |title=Shakespeare Reloaded |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eNwBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA135 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2014 |page=135 |isbn=978-1-107-67930-6}}</ref> The book was adapted into a [[Ill Met by Moonlight (film)|film with the same name]] in 1957.<ref>{{cite web |title=BFI Screenonline: Ill Met By Moonlight (1957) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/500329/ |website=www.screenonline.org.uk |access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref>

[[Botho Strauß]]'s play ''[[The Park (play)|The Park]]'' (1983) is based on characters and [[motif (literature)|motifs]] from ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.{{sfn|Broich|2006|p=144}}

[[Neil Gaiman]]'s comic series ''[[The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman]]'' uses the play in the 1990 issue "[[The Sandman: Dream Country#"A Midsummer Night's Dream"|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]". In this story, Shakespeare and his company perform the play for the real Oberon and Titania and an audience of fairies. The play is heavily quoted in the comic, and Shakespeare's son [[Hamnet Shakespeare|Hamnet]] appears in the play as the Indian boy. This issue was the first and only comic to win the [[World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction]], in 1991.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KDAlDwAAQBAJ&q=puck+sandman+gaiman&pg=PA386|title=The Shakespearean World|first1=Jill L.|last1=Levenson|first2=Robert|last2=Ormsby|year= 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-69619-3}}</ref>

[[Terry Pratchett]]'s book ''[[Lords and Ladies (novel)|Lords and Ladies]]'' (1992) is a [[parody]] of the play.{{sfn|Forward|2006}}

[[Bernard Cornwell]]'s novel ''[[Fools and Mortals]]'' (2017) is about the creation and first performance of the play, as seen by the young actor, Richard Shakespeare, brother of the playwright.<ref>{{cite news |title='Fools and Mortals' finds Shakespeare's brother taking center stage |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2018/0116/Fools-and-Mortals-finds-Shakespeare-s-brother-taking-center-stage |access-date=14 April 2020 |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |date=16 January 2018}}</ref>