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Lovers, actors, and fairies collide in an enchanted wood in Shakespeare’s dreamlike comedy.
Four young lovers flee into a wood outside Athens, where a quarrel between the fairy king and queen sets enchantments in motion. Nearby, tradesmen rehearse a play for a wedding. A mischievous love potion entangles all three worlds.
Shakespeare’s comedy moves between earthly rules and the unruly imagination. Its poetry and shifting affections invite readers to enjoy the thin boundary between a night’s confusion and a dream.
The play is especially enjoyable read aloud, where its songs, rhymes, and comic misunderstandings take on a new energy. The amateur actors’ earnest performance provides a wonderfully human mirror to the lovers’ confusion and the fairies’ elaborate enchantments.
