Short answers, pulled from the story.
A Midsummer Night's Dream was written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The exact date remains unknown but topical references suggest composition during the late Elizabethan period.
The text entered the Register of the Stationers' Company on the 8th of October 1600 by bookseller Thomas Fisher who published the first quarto edition later that year. A second quarto appeared in 1619 printed by William Jaggard as part of his False Folio collection.
Various sources inspired Shakespeare including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's The Knight's Tale. Aristophanes classical Greek comedy The Birds has also been proposed due to similarities between Procne and Titania being awakened by male characters with animal heads singing about birds.
Samuel Pepys wrote oldest known comments on play finding it most insipid ridiculous play ever saw life the 29th of September 1662. He admitted some good dancing handsome women which was all pleasure.
A Midsummer Night's Dream acted adapted form like many other Shakespearean plays never performed entirety until 1840s heavily adapted forms Henry Purcell musical masque play Fairy Queen 1692 successful run Dorset Garden Theatre not revived Richard Leveridge turned Pyramus Thisbe scenes Italian opera burlesque Lincoln Inn Fields 1716 John Frederick Lampe elaborated version 1745.