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The discovery of the typescript of Jaroslav Kvapil’s 1936 adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the radio offers a unique insight into the director’s dramaturgical and poetic thinking. This essay contextualizes the radio production as one of Kvapil’s many encounters with Shakespeare’s comedy that inspired him throughout his creative career. The surviving text of the radio adaptation illustrates Kvapil’s aesthetics. The essay’s first part introduces the context of Kvapil’s staging of Shakespeare, focusing on the comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The second part analyzes the radio adaptation and identifies its specific aesthetic features. On a theoretical level, it proposes using the term redaction as a special case of the broad concept of adaptation.