A Midsummer Night's Dream: The 30-Minute Shakespeare by Nick Newlin, and William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream: The 30-Minute Shakespeare By Nick Newlin, and William Shakespeare 

Midsummer’s night dream is a famous play of Renaissance time. It is one of the most  popular play and performed many times. It is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. The  book A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 7 is  regarding how critic think about this play. The story has MANY important themes. The first  one is marriage if Theseus and Hippolyta. Second one is the conflict among four Athenian  lovers namely; Helena, Hermia, Demetrius and Lysander. The story has some fairy tale  elements too. Puck, Oberon and queen Titania are the most interesting characters of this play.  Hermia loves Lysander but her father Egeus want to marry her daughter to Demetrius.  Demetrius broke the heart of Helena, who is the best friend of Hermia. The particular reason  for circumstances created when the father refuse to marry Hermia with Lysander. Then she  decided to leave the town with Lysander. Hermia told this plan to Helena who then told to  Demetrius. Helena still is in deep love with Demetrius. As the story progress, the book  encounters the two groups of bands. The first group of Peter Quince plan to play the cruelest death of Pyramus and Thisbe. Whereas in parallel plot Oberon, who is the king of the fairies  and Titania, who is the queen of Oberon arrived at the same forest where Hermia and  Lysander go to. Later Helena and Demetrius followed the lovers and the entire character were  at the forest.  

We can find many interesting things in the story. The love angle between Hermia,  Demetrius, Lysander and Helena was the most attractive theme. On the other side the relation  with Oberon and Titania are not good as titania refuse to give prince to the king. The king decided to use a love potion in order to get Titania falls in love and agree on what king  Oberon wants. Oberon give the task to nick bottom who is the ugliest one. His body is turned  into ass due to the curse. The story took a sudden change when nick use the potion on the two  lover Demetrius and Lysander. On the contrary queen fall for nick due to the effect of potion.  The night in that forest had its own sparkle and charm. In the end Hermia and Lysander,  Demetrius and Helena became lover. The story end on the marriage of those lovers. Critic  had point out Helena is guilty of ungrateful treachery. 

Reviewed by SANA SHAIKH, ROLL NO:44 

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