仲夏夜之夢既英文內容

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest.
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta, and set simultaneously in the woodland, and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon. Egeus wishes Hermia to marry Demetrius, but Hermia is loves and is loved by Lysander. Demetrius loves Hermia, but used to love Hermia’s friend Helena, who still loves Demetrius. Egeus asks Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius, since the law of Athens allows a father to dispose of his daughter as he will. Theseus decides that before the next new moon, the day of his and Hippolyta’s wedding, Hermia must either marry Demetrius as her father wills, or live out her life in a nunnery. Lysander and Hermia discuss what to do, and decide to elope, arranging to meet in the forest the next night. Helena arrives, and the two lovers tell her of their plan. Helena decides to tell Demetrius.

Puck meets a fairy who is attendant to the fairy queen, Titania, and they talk about Titania and her king Oberon’s quarrel. Titania has taken a lovely boy, a changling for her attendant. Oberon is jealous, and would like the boy for himself. After this exposition, Titania and Oberon themselves meet, and quarrel.

The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt. They wake the lovers and, since Demetrius doesn't love Hermia anymore, Theseus over-rules Egeus's demands and arranges a group wedding. The lovers decide that the night's events must have been a dream.

Midsummer night of dream