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    Drama - 60 Second Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Plays, Themes and Characters - A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    This document summarizes events from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It describes how Oberon, king of the fairies, orders Puck to use magic to sort out relationships between lovers in the woods. However, Puck mistakenly causes the fairy queen Titania to fall in love with Bottom, who has been given a donkey's head by Puck's magic. Meanwhile, the young lovers experience confusion over who loves whom, due to Puck's interference. By the end of the night, Oberon sets things right and the lovers are paired up properly.

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    Drama - 60 Second Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Plays, Themes and Characters - A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    This document summarizes events from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It describes how Oberon, king of the fairies, orders Puck to use magic to sort out relationships between lovers in the woods. However, Puck mistakenly causes the fairy queen Titania to fall in love with Bottom, who has been given a donkey's head by Puck's magic. Meanwhile, the young lovers experience confusion over who loves whom, due to Puck's interference. By the end of the night, Oberon sets things right and the lovers are paired up properly.

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    This document summarizes events from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It describes how Oberon, king of the fairies, orders Puck to use magic to sort out relationships between lovers in the woods. However, Puck mistakenly causes the fairy queen Titania to fall in love with Bottom, who has been given a donkey's head by Puck's magic. Meanwhile, the young lovers experience confusion over who loves whom, due to Puck's interference. By the end of the night, Oberon sets things right and the lovers are paired up properly.

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    Drama - 60 Second Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Plays, Themes and Characters - A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    Candy Lee
    This document summarizes events from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It describes how Oberon, king of the fairies, orders Puck to use magic to sort out relationships between lovers in the woods. However, Puck mistakenly causes the fairy queen Titania to fall in love with Bottom, who has been given a donkey's head by Puck's magic. Meanwhile, the young lovers experience confusion over who loves whom, due to Puck's interference. By the end of the night, Oberon sets things right and the lovers are paired up properly.

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    Tue 09 Oct |
    Frolicsome fairies
    cause love mix-up
    "My Oberon! what visions have
    I seen!
    Methought I was enamoured of
    an ass."
    Titania (above) Act 4, Scene 1
    Thanks to cheeky imp
    Puck and his magic
    love-juice, the woods
    are alive with the
    sounds of kissing.
    Following orders from
    fairy Chief Oberon, the
    sprite sorted out a
    thorny love-tangle
    amongst the youth of
    Athens - but not
    without a few hiccups.
    And the night didn't go
    so well for Oberon's
    missus Titania, who
    made a real ass of
    herself!
    It began when young
    stud Demetrius decided
    he'd wed babe Hermia,
    and got her Dad's say-
    so to do it. But the
    course of true love
    never did run smooth -
    she preferred luscious
    lover Lysander instead!
    All the time, leggy
    lovely Helena was
    mooning after dishy
    Demetrius - who
    couldn't have cared
    less.
    When saucy pair
    Hermia and Lysander
    ran off to the woods,
    Demetrius was quick to
    follow - with hapless
    Helena trailing after.
    But pesky pixie Puck
    had a surprise in store
    for them.
    Meanwhile, some local
    yokels had the fright
    of their life when the
    little mischief maker
    gave their mate Nick
    Bottom a donkey's
    Continued below...
    Oberon
    He's King of
    the Fairies, so
    he's pretty used to
    being obeyed. That
    meant when his
    missus Titania
    wouldn't give him
    what he wanted, he
    made sure she'd
    regret it!
    Titania
    The Queen of
    the Fairies, is
    a strong proud
    woman who keeps
    her promises.
    Despite being very
    much in love, she
    and Oberon can
    have their
    disagreements.
    Puck
    Oberon's right
    hand
    hobgoblin, Puck's
    fond of playing
    pranks on people.
    Amongst his talents
    are magic, invisibility
    and girdling the
    earth in forty
    minutes.
    Bottom
    Down-to-
    earth weaver
    Nick Bottom has a
    pretty high opinion
    of himself, despite
    his crude manners.
    Puck made an ass of
    him, but gave him a
    night to remember in
    Titania's arms.
    head, then used his magic
    powers to make Fairy Queen
    Titania fall for the silly ass.
    The two were left together
    for true love to follow its
    Next Puck worked his
    magic mojo to make
    Demetrius fall in love with
    Helen - but the fairy feller
    botched the job. He realised
    his mistake after setting
    "The course of true love
    never did run smooth"
    Lysander Act 1, Scene 1
    "Love looks not with the
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    course - at least until
    hubby with the hump
    Oberon had had enough of
    Titania's embarrassment.
    both Lysander and
    Demetrius drooling over
    Helena, and soon set things
    right. There'll be a double
    wedding in the morning!
    eyes, but with the mind;
    And therefore is winged
    Cupid painted blind."
    Helena, Act 1, scene 1
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