Dream, Tempest And Inn

The three story-telling media are narrative, drama and sequential art. Watch performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Then read:

A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson;
Neil Gaiman's Sandman episodes named after the two plays.

Anderson presents a sequel to the plays whereas Gaiman informs us that the first performance of the Dream was to Auberon's court and shows us how The Tempest came to be written.

After A Midsummer Tempest, read Anderson's "House Rule" and "Losers' Night." You have now read everything that has been written about the Old Phoenix, the inn between the universes. Then read Gaiman's The Sandman: Worlds' End. You have now read everything that has been written about the Inn of the Worlds' End.

This is a strange multi-media literary sequence.