Midsummer+Night's+Dream

First person to find out about the source of __Midsummer Night's Dream__ wins a chocolate fish. I have dipped some tarakihi in chocolate specially. (Beware, this may be a trick question. If you're really keen, find Harold Bloom's book, __Shakespeare. The Invention of the Human__ in a library and read the first few pages (more if you wish) about MSND.)

Mehrbano: When I did some searching on the internet, one site ( [|www.shakespeare-online.com]) said: "There is no known source for Shakespeare's //A Midsummer Night's Dream  //. As with  //Love's Labour's Lost  //, and  //The Tempest  //,  //A Midsummer Night's Dream  //<span class="goog_qs-tidbit-0"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0"> seems to have  been entirely a product of Shakespeare's own imagination." But there is one thing: Ypolita and Theseus are characters from 'The Canterbury Tales', specifically 'Knight's Tale'.

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