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A Midsummer Night's Dream - A Comedy of Love, Magic, and Mischief
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627551199
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: May 13 2013
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Four young lovers enter an enchanted forest where fairies, mistaken identities, and a badly applied love potion turn romance into glorious confusion.
Hermia loves Lysander, but her father insists that she marry Demetrius. Demetrius pursues Hermia, while Helena desperately pursues Demetrius. When the four young Athenians flee into the forest, they stumble into a quarrel between Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies. Determined to manipulate both his queen and the mortals, Oberon sends the mischievous Puck to use a magical flower that causes its victims to fall in love with the first creature they see.
Puck's mistake transforms romantic rivalry into comic chaos. Both Lysander and Demetrius suddenly pursue Helena, Hermia feels betrayed, and Titania becomes enchanted with Bottom, an overconfident amateur actor whose head has been transformed into that of a donkey. Meanwhile, Bottom and his fellow craftsmen rehearse their spectacularly inept production of Pyramus and Thisbe for the Duke of Athens, unaware that they have wandered into a world governed by fairy magic.
First performed in the late sixteenth century, A Midsummer Night's Dream remains one of Shakespeare's most popular and frequently staged comedies. Its blend of romance, fantasy, slapstick, poetry, theatrical satire, and supernatural mischief has delighted audiences for centuries. Beneath the comedy, the play explores the irrational nature of desire, the instability of identity, and the thin line separating waking life from dreams.
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