A Midsummer Nights Dream Play

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Midsummer Night's Dream I watched North Eastern High School in Manchester, York act A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Sheakspeare. The main characters in this play are Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, Puck, Bottom, Oberon & Titania. The setting for this love drama is Athens in Greece. This would have to be a play within a play. Honestly, this whole play almost puzzled me. Considering it was a high school play, it was tough to following the acting. The plot contained two sets of couples, Helena and Demetrius, Hermia and Lysander. Theseus, the father of Hermia, demanded Hermia to marry Demetrius. Demetrius is in love with Hermia.Thesus is getting married to Hippolyta in a few days, he threatens Hermia, if she does not marry Demetrius before his marriage, she could face execution. Of course, Hermia is madly in love with Lysander. They chose to run away to Lysander's aunt's house to marry and be happily together forever. Before they run off, Hermia tells Helena (Demetriusex-lover) that she and Lysander were running off together. That leads to Helena telling Demetrius what was going on, hoping Demetrius would give her another chance, but they both end up tracing the run away couple in the forest. Both sets of couples end up in the forest; they run in to Oberon & Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies. Titania recieves a young indian prince, from the prince's mother, Oberon wants to turn him into a knight. When Titania refuses her prince be turned into a knight, Oberon orders Puck to go recieve a magic flower (love potion). Puck must sprinkle the flower on their sleeping eyeleds, and whoever they lay eyes on first upon waking, they will fall madly in love. Puck is the mischeif and really puts a twist to the whole love triangle. Because Demetrius treats Helena with no respect, Oberon orders Puck to give him the love potion to make in fall in love with
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