A Midsummer Night's Dream
First published 1595 · English · 298 pages
- Drama
- Love and romance
- Children's
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy set in ancient Athens and the woods nearby. Two pairs of young lovers flee into the forest, where fairies led by Oberon and Titania quarrel and the mischievous Puck uses a magic flower to meddle with people's affections. Meanwhile a group of working men rehearse a clumsy play for a royal wedding. Confusion, enchantment and misplaced desire tangle together in one night. The play celebrates the foolishness and wonder of love, and it is among Shakespeare's most playful and widely staged works.
Quotes
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
Though she be but little, she is fierce.