12. Peter Brook, interview with Peter Ansorge, Plays and Players, October 1970.
13. Brook, interview with Ansorge.
14. Halio, A Midsummer Night's Dream, p. 31.
15. Trevor R. Griffiths, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare in Production (1996), p. 72.
16. Halio, A Midsummer Night's Dream, p. 59.
17. Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream" (1827).
18. J. C. Trewin, Illustrated London News, 12 September 1970.
19. Sally Jacobs, "Designing the Dream," in Peter Brook's Production of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the Royal Shakespeare Company: The Complete and Authorised Acting Edition (1974).
20. J. L. Styan, The Shakespeare Revolution: Criticism and Performance in the Twentieth Century (1977), p. 167.
21. Peter Brook, interview with Ronald Hayman, The Times, 29 August 1970.
22. Irving Wardle, The Times, 28 August 1970.
23. Styan, The Shakespeare Revolution, p. 169.
24. Adrian Noble, A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC Education Pack (1994).
25. Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 5 August 1994.
26. Anthony Ward, A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC Education Pack (1994).
27. Michael Billington, Guardian, 5 August 1994.
28. Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 5 August 1994.
29. Chris Parry, A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC Education Pack (1994).
30. D. H. Lawrence, Autumn Sunshine (1916).
31. Gavin Millar, Listener, 3 September 1970.
32. Michael Billington, Guardian, 21 February 2002.
33. Patrick Carnegy, Spectator, 2 March 2002.
34. Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 21 February 2002.
35. Michael Billington, Guardian, 21 February 2002.
36. Susannah Clapp, Observer, 24 February 2002.
37. Halio, A Midsummer Night's Dream, p. 66.
38. Gary Jay Williams, Theatre, Summer-Fall, 1982.
39. Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman, 24 July 1981.
40. Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 16 April 2005.
41. Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard, 18 April 2005.