At the Midsummer night's dream

At the Midsummer night's dream

Oberon and Titania the king and queen have had a falling out. To get back at Titania, Oberon gives the sleeping queen a magic potion to make her fall in love with the first creature she sees when she wakes up. This ends up being the human, Nick Bottom to whom Puck has given the head of a donkey. Later Oberon

and Puck put everything back to normal breaking the spell on Titania and giving Bottom his regular head back. In short it's a love square triangle. At the beginning of the play Hermia and Lysander are together but Hermia's dad says she has to marry Demetrius instead. Meanwhile Demetrius ex Helena is still in love with him. Hermia and Lysander escape to the forest so they can stay together and Demetrius and Helena follow them. In the forest, a combination of magic confusion and farce takes place but eventually they come out happy and coupled up Hermia and Lysander still together and Demetrius and Helena back together. Then they all have a triple wedding at the end of the play along with Duke Theseus and his bride Hippolyta. A Midsummer night's dream highly praised for being the first comic master piece of William Shakespeare was written in the most fertile literary period from 1595 to 1596. It is believed that the play was written for the performance at an aristocratic wedding. This play of Shakespeare is well balanced and rich in variety of narrative style and dramatic procedure. This play about the love quadrangle of four couples: Hippolyta, Theseus, Hermia, Lysander, Helena Determius and Titania Oberon. Different couples represent different types of love: Hippolyta and Thesaus stand for mature love the love between Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Determius represent the youthful love the love affair of Oberon and Titania refers to the renewed love.