William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream: locations

Where everyone is, scene by scene

21 characters across 9 scenes. Map images load from OpenStreetMap.

4 places. Map images load from OpenStreetMap.

A scene is set hereMentioned

AthensScene
The principal setting. Theseus prepares to marry Hippolyta, while Hermia faces an Athenian law requiring her to obey her father's choice of husband.
Theseus's palaceScene
The Athenian court where the lovers' dispute is heard and, later, the wedding celebrations include the craftsmen's performance of Pyramus and Thisbe. Its precise site is fictional.
Peter Quince's houseScene
The craftsmen meet here to distribute parts for their play and later await Bottom's return. No identifiable real building corresponds to this setting.
The wood outside AthensScene
The lovers flee into this wood, the craftsmen rehearse, and the fairies' interventions produce the central confusions. Theseus's hunting party discovers the sleeping lovers here. The wood has no securely identifiable geographical site.
Titania's bowerScene
A flower-covered sleeping place within the wood. Oberon enchants Titania here, and she subsequently dotes on the transformed Bottom.
CreteMentioned
Mentioned rather than visited. Hippolyta recalls hunting in a Cretan wood with Hercules and Cadmus.
SpartaMentioned
Mentioned rather than visited. Hippolyta recalls the impressive sound of Spartan hounds during the hunt in Crete.
ThessalyMentioned
Referenced rather than used as a setting. Theseus describes his hounds as Thessalian in breed.

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