This comedy was composed by William Shakespeare in 1593 -95 and is divided in five acts, written in prose and verses. All the actions are narrated by dialogues.
This comedy belongs to the Shakespeare production's period called "Great Comedies".
Shakespeare based parts of the play on The Knight's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer and Metamorphoses by Ovid.



It was published in 1600 and 1619 quarto editions and then in 1623 as part of the First Folio, the first authorized collection of Shakespeare's plays.
We don't know exactly when he was first performed, but the first performance known took place at Court on 1 January 1605.

Characters of the play

Puck - is Oberon’s jester, a mischievous spirit who has a very important rule in the story.  He is responsible for many of the complications that make the play intriguing. He is a capricious spirit, he is graceful but not so sweet as the other fairies, his character change the atmosphere of the play.

Oberon – is the king of the fairies. He uses Puck to manipulate the four lovers in the wood for this we can say that he is sensitive to other people’s sufferings. Oberon at the beginning of the play is in argue with Titania but at the end he is in love with her.

Titania – is the beautiful queen of the fairies, Titania resists the attempts of her husband, Oberon,so she has a steady personality. 
In the middle of the play she falls in love with Nick Bottom but only for a potion in fact in really she love Oberon.

Lysander – is a young man of Athens, in love with Hermia.  Lysander’s relationship with Hermia is the cause of all the love’s difficulty in the play: in fact they can’t marry because Egeus, Hermia’s father, wants her to wed Demetrius. He seem loyal with his love, Hermia.

Demetrius – is another young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena. Demetrius is very obstinate: he wants to marry Hermia  in spite of she isn’t in love with him. He is egotist and irreverent and cruel with Helena.

Hermia – is the Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. Hermia is in love with Lysander and is the best friend of Helena. She is very beautiful and, for this, is desires not only by Lysander but also by Demetrius. She is also hot-tempered.

Helena – is a young woman of Athens, in desperately love with Demetrius. Helena is the one character who thinks most about the nature of love. Demetrius and Helena were once betrothed, but when Demetrius met Helena’s friend Hermia, he fell in love with her and abandoned Helena.
I don’t like her personality because when she told to Demetrius the plain of Hermia and Lysander she was unfaithful with her best friend, Hermia.

Egeus – is Hermia’s father, who brings a complaint against his daughter: he has given to Demetrius the permission to marry Hermia, but Hermia is in love with Lysander.
He is irrational and obstinate with his daughter, only in the end of the story, when Demetrius isn’t in love with Hermia he consents the marriage of Lysandrus and his daughter.

Theseus – is the heroic duke of Athens, engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order.
He appears only at the beginning and end of the story.

Hippolyta – is the legendary queen of the Amazons, engaged to Theseus. Like Theseus, she symbolizes order.

Nick Bottom - Nick Bottom is a weaver, and one of the actors who put on the play, "Pyramus and Thisbe." He is a hilariously, strong and confident character. Puck magically transforms Bottom's head into an ass's head, which scares his fellow players. When Pyramus and Thisbe is performed, Bottom plays the role of Pyramus with great energy and enthusiasm but little skill.

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