A Midsummer Night's Dream is dramatized as comedy by the great playwright William Shakespeare, and this play is performed umpteen times in theaters worldwide. This play is set in the Athenian background where the rules of choosing the bridegroom are wholly left with the father of the brides.

Hermia loves Lysander, but her father Egeus chooses Demetrius as his son-in-law. While Demetrius is being loved by Helena. Hermia and Lysander chose to flee out of the city, but being chased by Demetrius, who himself is being chased by Helena. All of them enter into a forest area, where the faerie king and queen Oberon and Titania reside. The romances of the lovers collapse, because of a flower can cause people fall in love with whatever they see first. Fantasies unveil during a stage play organized for celebrating the wedding of Duke of Athens, Thesis and Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta.

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