A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, is a brilliant play about a group of Athenians during the 19th century. The plot is mainly focused on four youthful lovers, the Fairy King and Queen, and a play-with-in-a-play. Hermia, the fair and beautiful, is in love with Lysander, but has been forced by her father to become engaged to Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia decide to escape from Athens that very evening, and tell Hermia's very good friend Helena of their plan. Helena, in a desperate attempt to make Demetrius fall in love with her, tells him of the two lovers plans. Helena and Demetrius follow them. Demetrius in an effort to find his future bride, and Helena in an effort to make Demetrius fall in love with her. However, in a delightful twist, Puck places daps from a flower over the eyes of the sleeping lovers, and accidentally causes both Lysander and Demetrius to fall in love with Helena, and no longer desire Hermia. In another scene, there is a rehearsal-taking place for a play that Nick Bottom and his friends will have to act upon in front of their duke. The group decides to go to the forest to practice the play that evening in an attempt to prepare themselves without others around to watch. The Fairy king and Puck see the problem they have, by accident, created, and fix it as quickly as they stared it. Afterward, everything goes back to normal, with the acceptation of Demetrius, who is now in love with Helena. While this has .
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happened, in another scene, Puck puts Nick Bottom under a spell, and his head is turned into that of a Donkey. Oberon has put the magical drops of the flower over the Queen's eyes, and she awakes to see the half-man-half-donkey before her, and falls in love. Soon after, the King feels bad, and reverses the spell, and Nick Bottom is back to his conceited self, and able to present his play-with-in-a-play to the Duke. This play was full of magical characters, and lots of wild schemes.
