Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: first_name: William
last_name: Shakespeare
Language: English
Year: 1600

Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey's head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left.  What's going on here?  It's <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>, Shakespeare at his most fanciful.  The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens, preparing for his wedding.  Egeus complains to Theseus that his daughter Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius.  When Hermia is given the choice between marriage to Demetrius or life as a nun, she and her true love Lys