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Demetrius enters pursued by Helena, whom he tries to drive off. Oberon wants to make Titania fall in love with a beast and use her infatuation to get the Indian boy from her. Oberon orders Robin Goodfellow, a hobgoblin or “puck,” to obtain a special flower that makes people fall in love with the next creature they see. Act 2, scene 1 Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, quarrel over possession of a young Indian boy.The men are given their parts to study, and they agree to meet for a rehearsal in the woods outside Athens. Pyramus will be played by Bottom the weaver and Thisbe by Francis Flute the bellows-mender. Act 1, scene 2 Six Athenian tradesmen decide to put on a play, called “Pyramus and Thisbe,” for Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding.To win Demetrius’s favor, Helena decides to tell him about Lysander and Hermia’s planned elopement. They reveal their plan to Helena, Hermia’s friend, who is in love with Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia make plans to flee Athens. Theseus threatens Hermia with either lifelong chastity or death if she continues to disobey her father. Egeus demands that Theseus enforce Athenian law upon Hermia and execute her if she refuses to marry Demetrius. Egeus arrives with his daughter Hermia and her two suitors, Lysander (the man she wants to marry) and Demetrius (the man her father wants her to marry).

Act 1, scene 1 Theseus, duke of Athens, is planning the festivities for his upcoming wedding to the newly captured Amazon, Hippolyta.

The two young couples join the royal couple in getting married, and Bottom rejoins his friends to perform the play. Oberon disenchants Titania and removes Bottom’s ass’s head. She falls in love with Bottom, who now, thanks to Robin Goodfellow, wears an ass’s head.As the lovers sleep, Robin Goodfellow restores Lysander’s love for Hermia, so that now each young woman is matched with the man she loves. Oberon, who is quarreling with his wife, Titania, uses the flower juice on her eyes. All four young Athenians end up in the woods, where Robin Goodfellow, who serves the fairy king Oberon, puts flower juice on the eyes of Lysander, and then Demetrius, unintentionally causing both to love Helena. Hermia’s father, Egeus, commands Hermia to marry Demetrius, and Theseus supports the father’s right. Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia she loves Lysander and her friend Helena loves Demetrius. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in the woods a play they hope to stage for the wedding celebrations.Four young Athenians are in a romantic tangle. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.

Entire Play In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results.