A Midsummer Night's Dream
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream [A Midsummer Nights Dream]
a comedy play by William
Shakespeare which takes place in a wood near Athens. The story involves three groups of characters in a mixture of magic and reality. ↑
Oberon,
the king of the
fairies, is angry with his wife ↑
Titania,
and tells his servant
Puck to play a trick on her, so that she falls in love with
Bottom, one of a group of workers who are practising a play they are going to perform for the Athenian court. Bottom’s head is changed into that of an ↑
ass. Puck also plays magic tricks on a group of young lovers with comic results, until everything is put right and the play ends with wedding celebrations and the performance of the workers’ play.
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