A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy created by British playwright william shakespeare, which tells a love story with a happy ending.
The first performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream was on the eve of the wedding of Sir Thomas henig and the Countess of Southampton on May 2nd, 594 at Southampton Manor. This play seems to be a great joy in a jazz wedding. This play has a great influence in the history of world literature, especially in the history of drama. Later generations adapted it into movies, stories, games, paintings and so on.
The story of A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place in Athens, ancient Greece. The young Hermia fell in love with Lysander, but her father asked her to marry Demetrius, so Hermia and Lysander fled to a forest outside the city.
At this time, in order to add interest to the grand wedding of theseus, Duke of Athens, and beautiful Hippolyta, a group of actors rehearsed a comedy in the forest. Hermia's good friend Helena loved Demetrius, so she told Demetrius the news. They went to the forest first, and then.
There are many lovely elves living in the forest. The fairy king O 'Brown and the fairy queen Titan are at loggerheads. In order to play tricks on the fairy queen, the fairy king ordered a rogue named Park to pick a flower juice and drop it in the fairy queen's eyes. Then she will wake up and fall madly in love with the person or animal she first saw.
As it happens, Wang Xian accidentally learned that Helena loved Demetrius, so he asked Puck to drop some flower juice into Demetrius' eyes, but Puck mistook Lysander for Demetrius. As a result, Lysander woke up and saw Helena, so he continued to pursue her and forgot Hermia. After the fairy king found out. Quickly drop the flower juice into the sleeping eyes of Demetrius.
Demetrius woke up and saw Helena being chased by Lysander, so they rushed to make love to Helena. Helena and Hermia were very angry when they saw such a scene.
At the same time, Xianhou also fell in love with Burton, a rehearsal actor. Finally, the fairy king got his own love except Demetrius' magic.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most romantic of all Shakespeare's plays. Its ideological characteristics are mainly resisting feudal marriage, pursuing free love and realizing universal harmony and happiness in the world.
It is probably because of such an advanced concept of transcending time and space, fantastic and romantic story description and suspenseful story trend that this drama will still be loved by everyone after hundreds of years!