A Midsummer Nights Dream

Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeares more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Nights Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, De Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeares more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Nights Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the sharp Athenian law of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian changeling boy. The appearance of the rude mechanicals, a group of Athenian work...