A Midsummer Night's Gene

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A Midsummer Night's Gene
First edition
Author	Andrew Harman
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Legend
Publication date	1997
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	288
ISBN	0-09-978871-3
OCLC	43236604

A Midsummer Night's Gene is a comedy science fiction novel written by Andrew Harman and published in 1997 by Random House. The novel is loosely based on Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Set in modern Britain, its plot concerns laboratory-engineered gene mutation at the Splice of Life Patentable Biosciences lab and the chaos that follows when it goes wrong.^[1]

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Characters

Lovers	Theseus and Hippolyta Oberon and Titania Hermia and Lysander Helena and Demetrius
Mechanicals	Nick Bottom Peter Quince Francis Flute Robin Starveling Tom Snout Snug
Others	Puck Egeus Philostrate

Productions

Film	1935 1959 1968 1999 2017
Television	1969 1981 1992 2016
Stage	1970

Adaptations

Film	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909, silent) Wood Love (1925) Dream of a Summer Night (1983) Get Over It (2001) A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002) Midsummer Dream (2005) Were the World Mine (2008) 10ml Love (2012) Strange Magic (2015)
Literature	A Midsummer Tempest (1974) Lords and Ladies (1992) A Midsummer Night's Gene (1997) A Midsummer's Nightmare (1997) The Great Night (2011)
Music	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1842, Mendelssohn) "Wedding March" Three Shakespeare Songs (1951) Symphony No. 8 (1992, Henze) Il Sogno (2004)
Opera	The Fairy-Queen (1692) Pyramus and Thisbe (1745) Puck (1949) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960, opera) The Enchanted Island (2011)
Stage	The Triumph of Beauty (1646, masque) St. John's Eve (1852, play) The Park (1983, play) The Donkey Show (1999, musical) The Dreaming (2001, musical) The Lovers (2022, musical)
Comics	The Sandman: Dream Country (1991) Auberon Faerie Titania
Art	Hermia and Lysander The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania and Bottom
Ballet	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962) The Dream (1964)
Television	"Fascination" (1994, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1994, ShakespeaRe-Told) A Midsummer's Nightmare (2017)

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^ Barry Forshaw (5 July 1997). "Review: Collected Works". New Scientist. Retrieved 21 July 2025.