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A Midsummer Night's Dream (summary)



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A Midsummer Night's Dream   (summary)

INTRODU CTION

This famous comedy of Shakespeare represents the history of 2 worlds; both hold in a common background: a beautiful one populated by Fairies, the other instead characterized by the crudeness of a group of rude craftsmen, by the plots of 4 lovers, and from the wedding of a duke, Theseus.//

SUMMARY

The play opens as Theseus and his bride-to-be, Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, are discussing their upcoming marriage when  Egeus, Demetrius, Lysander and Hermia enter. He hears Egeus' complaint that his daughter Hermia refuses to marry his chosen suitor, Demetrius, since she's in love with Lysander. Theseus declares Hermia must marry Demetrius, or choose between death or spend her life in a convent.



When Lysander and Hermia remain alone, in the scene enters Helena, that is really fall in love with Demetrius, and the 2 lovers explain to her that they would run away from Athens to marry the fallowing night.

Then, in the house of Quince; Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling and him organize a play to be performed at Theseus' wedding, the craftsmen are deciding the parts. Bottom is an Athens's weaver that goes in the near wood with his group of rude actors for a silly drama's rehearsal, of the tragic love story of: Pyramus and Thisbe. The vicissitude develops in fairies' world and the leading characters are Oberon and Titania, the fairies' king and queen, unfortunately divided by a quarrel because Oberon should have her orphan child as his e. To obtain the boy, he orders the fairy Puck, to reap a magical flower that causes on love the first person you see when you wake up. Oberon pours a little of the juice from the flower into Titania's eyes that falls in love with a donkey. (Puck used his magic to change Bottom's head into the head of a donkey). Oberon orders Puck to anoint Demetrius with this flower so he'll love Helena rather than Hermia. In the wood, Lysander and Hermia lie down to rest. Puck, thinking Lysander is Demetrius, anoints him with the flower. Helena appears and awakes Lysander, who immediately falls in love with her. Puck observes that Demetrius chases Hermia, yet she accuses him of murdering Lysander, and realizes he gave the flower to the wrong man. Oberon tries to remedy this by anointing Lysander with the flower so he'll fall in love with Helena, and he does. However, now both men love Helena, while she believes both are false. Hermia arrives and Helena accuses her of conspiring with the men to tease her. Oberon, realizing Puck has caused these problems, orders him to make a thick fog to separate the four people and force them into a deep sleep, so the spell can wear off. Oberon succeeds to take possession of  the boy that he wanted and thanks to an other flower that cancels all the magic, all the things come to place so that it returns the peace between him and Titania, and they love each other again. Oberon and Puck manage to make Demetrius in love with Helena and Lysander with Hermia. So Egeus accepts, embittered, the choice of Demetrius that admits that he doesn't want to marry his daughter anymore. Later there are the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta, Demetrius and Helena and Lysander and Hermia. Then there is the show put in scene from the craftsmen, that as previewed is poor. The lords agree to let them marry. Separately, Bottom awakes and remember's the night's occurrences. At dinner, they all hear Quince's ten word, tedious, brief, tragical play. In it, Thisbe (played by Flute) and Pyramus (played by Bottom) whisper their love through a chink in a wall (played by Snout). They vow to meet at Ninny's tomb, but a lion (played by Snug) attacks Thisbe. Pyramus arrives and finds her scarf, assumes she's dead, and kills himself Thisbe arrives to find him dead, and kills herself. After the play, at midnight, all go to bed then the fairies appear and frolic.




CHARACTERS

The characters are : Theseus, the duke of Athens that will marry with Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons; Egeus, Hermia's father, who wanted her daughter marry Demetrius; Lysander, in love with Hermia who finally will marry; Demetrius, also him fall in love with Hermia, but thanks to the magical flower will marry Helena; Philostrate, Theseus's master of revels; Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout and Starveling, the craftsmen that play the tragic love story of: Pyramus and Thisbe , but Bottom in particolar, will have the head of a donkey, will fall in love with Titania; Hermia, Lysander's lover, with whom she will marry, Helena, Demetrius' lover, with whom she will marry thanks to the magical flower; Oberon, King of the Fairies; Titania, Queen of the Fairies, Puck, one of the King's servant who had mixed the love of the four lovers.








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