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Key ideas from the book
- The play presents love as changeable and complicated through the shifting affections of two young couples.
- Theseus and Hippolyta’s impending marriage frames the play’s events.
- Oberon and Titania’s dispute over an orphan boy brings the fairy world into the story.
- Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with Bottom, whose head is transformed by a hobgoblin.
- Bottom and his companions provide a comic performance of the tragedy “Pyramus and Thisbe.”
About A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Love becomes tangled in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As Theseus and Hippolyta prepare to marry, two young men and two young women find their affections shifting in the woods outside Athens. There, the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania, are also at odds over an orphan boy.
Magic links the lovers’ confusion to the comic misadventures of Bottom, a weaver whose head is transformed into that of a donkey, and his companions’ awkward performance of “Pyramus and Thisbe.” The Folger edition includes explanatory notes, scene-by-scene summaries, an introduction to Shakespeare’s language, and an essay by Catherine Belsey, making it useful for students and general readers.
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