Midsummer Night's Dream
Athenian lovers' enchantment
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy by William Shakespeare, written around 1595, involving tangled lovers, feuding fairy royalty, and a troupe of amateur actors in an enchanted forest.
The play's dreamlike atmosphere and themes of love's irrationality have made it one of Shakespeare's most performed works.
The title refers to midsummer's eve, traditionally associated with magic and strange happenings.
- fairyTiny winged magical creature
- fairy queenMonarch of magical folk
- moonlightReflected solar radiance, nocturnal
- spriteTiny magical creature
- magic spellSupernatural verbal formula
Oberon · forest · potion · Puck · farce · Titania · courtship · changeling · star-crossed lovers · enchantment · love potion · nymph · enchanted forest · reconciliation · elf · romance · unrequited love · lovers' quarrel
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