Listen to A Midsummer Night's Dream Free Audiobook
By William Shakespeare

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare is a traditional romantic comedy that weaves love, magic, and mistaken identity into a captivating forest backdrop. Located in Athens and a magical forest, the play revolves around multiple entwined plots. Hermia and Lysander run away to the forest to avoid her forced marriage to Demetrius, whom Helena loves. At the same time, Oberon and Titania, the fairy king and queen, are involved in an enchanted dispute. Oberon applies a love potion to Titania and the innocent mortals and brings about chaos and disorientation. A prankster fairy called Puck accidentally gives the love potion to the wrong individuals, and as a result, people fall out of and into love with the wrong individuals in the most slapstick kind of way. Meanwhile, there is also an amateur theater company rehearsing a play for the Duke's wedding, throwing in more laughs along the way. Finally, the spell is reversed, the lovers are properly matched, and there is peace once again. The play ends with several weddings and a festive celebration. A Midsummer Night's Dream explores themes of the irrationality of love, the energy of dreams, and the smudged line between fantasy and reality, and it ranks among Shakespeare's most creative and popular plays.