William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - Unabridged

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - Unabridged

by William Shakespeare and Kevin Theis
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 29/01/2024

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William Shakespeare's hilarious fairy tale (with actual fairies!) of love, magic potions and teenage rebellion, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" might be the most performed play in the history of the English-speaking theatre.


The play begins as Athenian Duke Theseus is preparing to wed Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons. As they ready for their nuptials, Theseus is asked to settle a dispute between a prominent local citizen Egeus and his headstrong daughter Hermia. Egeus wants Hermia to marry young Demetrius, but Hermia. for her part, in love with Lysander. What's more: Demetrius has been dallying with (and abandoned) the lovely Helena (who is devoted to him), but Demetrius scorns the match. When Theseus sides with Egeus, Hermia and Lysander flee into the woods with Demetrius in hot pursuit (and Helena close at his heels).


Meanwhile, the woods are seeing their own drama play out: the Queen of the Faeries, Titania, is refusing to accede to the demands of the Faery King, Oberon and the vengeful Oberon enlists the help of the sprite Puck to teach her a lesson. Puck obtains a magic potion that will - when given to a sleeping victim - cause them to fall in love with the first creature they see upon awakening. Titania, dosed with the potion, awakens to find a local actor who Puck has adorned with a donkey's head as a prank...and immediately falls for him, much to Oberon's amusement.


A wild and twist-filled story of romance, magic and true love, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

ISBN:
9798892820332
9798892820332
Category:
Plays
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
29-01-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is unknown but is celebrated on 23 April, which happens to be St George's Day, and the day in 1616 on which Shakespeare died.

Aged eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. By 1595 he had written five of his history plays, six comedies and his first tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. In all, he wrote thirty-seven plays and much poetry, and earned enormous fame in his own lifetime in prelude to his immortality.

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