Booknotes 5.16

A Midsummer Night’s Dream , by William Shakespeare, published 1600, play, 64 pages. A bit bonkers. Once again, Ovid shows up everywhere. (I had no idea to what degree until after I read the Metamorphoses and started recognizing the allusions in other books.) I’d forgotten, too, that Shakespeare borrowed from Pyramus and Thisbe not once but twice. The Tempest , by William Shakespeare, published…