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.

Plot

The story is set at the time of Greeks
The action begins at the noble court of Theseus: the Duke of Athens. In the beginning of the story Theseus announces he will marry Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons in four days and he hears that Egeus wants his daughter Hermia to marry his chosen suitor Demetrius but she has refused because she's in love with Lysander, who Egeus dislikes. Theseus declares Hermia must marry Demetrius, or choose between death or joining a nunnery and gives her four days in which to decide what to do. So Lysander and Hermia decide to flee to the forest: in fact with this escape they can travel to the house of Lysander‘s aunt and there will be married. Helena, Hermia’s best friend, hears  this and decides to inform Demetrius, whom she loves. She decides to do that with the hope to become more liked by Demetrius but Demetrius loves only Hermia and decides to look for her in the forest. So Helena goes in the forest with Demetrius and hopes they will all meet. Meanwhile a band of laborers in which there are Quince, Bottom, Flute, Starveling, Snug, and Snout organizes, in the same place, a play to be performed at Theseus' wedding.

In the forest, Oberon (the King of the Fairies) argues with Titania (the Fairy Queen) because he wants to have her child as his slave. 
To triumph over the Queen, Oberon orders to his servant, Puck, to spread on Titania’s eyes, when she sleeps, the magic nectar which will causes the victim to fall in love with the first one she sees.
So Titania falls in love with Bottom, whose head has been turned into that of an ass.
In the same time Oberon sees that Demetrius is very cruel with Helena and orders to Puck to spread the nectar also to his eyes to fall in love him with her.
But Puck commits a wrong and spreads the nectar on Lysander’s eyes, so when he wake up and sees first Helena, who with Demetrius has come to them, fall in love with her.
Now there is a very disaster: Hermia loves Lysander but he loves Helena and Helena loves Demetrius but he loves Hermia.
So Puck  realizes that he has given the nectar to the wrong man and decides to spread the nectar also on Demetrius eyes but in this way now both men love Helena and she believes that both are false. Helena accuses Hermia of conspiring with the men to tease her. Oberon, realizes that Puck has caused these problems so he orders to him to make the things in the right order.
Puck derives to his master and make Lysander in love with Hermia.
In the same time Oberon awakes Titania and transforms Bottom back to a human so Oberon and Titania now love each other again. In the end of the story Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus appear and awake the four so they inform the three of their love. The lords agree to let them marry.
Now, for the marriage of Teseus with Hippolyta and the four youngs the company of actors makes a play . After the play, at midnight, all go to bed, then the fairies appear.

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