Midsummer Night’s Spectacle

To summarize an informational text, identify the main ideas and present the author’s viewpoint without expressing your own opinion about the topic or the text. Pretend that you have been assigned to write a brief summary of “Midsummer Night’s Spectacle” for a Web site that provides articles for a fee. Write a summary that will help potential readers decide if they want to purchase the full article or not. Remember that a summary includes only the most important ideas.