The most magic dream, however, the most beautiful, but love. Just as in life, love is a tragedy and comedy, the haphazard of dream and emotion. Shakespeare's famous work "Midsummer Night's Dream" has indeed surprised me, because it induces me went to read at one go, but it does not seem such a reading, at this time I feel like being in the forest, mountain flowers brilliant, beautiful scenery could not bear .
A Midsummer Night's Dream (仲夏夜之梦) 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 in a moonlit forest, and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit it and Duke of the Athenians. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular and is widely performed across the world.
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta.
In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to comply with her father Egeus's wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius. In response, Egeus quotes before Theseus an anciworshipping
ent Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity worshipping Diana as a nun. The word in this sense is an anachronism. Hermia and her lover Lysander therefore decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night. Hermia informs her best friend Helena, but Helena has recently been rejected by Demetrius and decides to win back his favor by revealing the plan to him. Demetrius, followed doggedly by Helena, chases Hermia, who, in turn, chases Lysander, from whom she becomes separated.
Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania, arrive in the same forest to attend Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian page-boy to Oberon for use as his "knight" or "henchman," since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience and recruits the mischievous Puck (also called Hobgoblin and Robin Goodfellow) to help him apply a magical juice from a flower called "love-in-idleness," which makes the victim fall in love with the first living thing he sees when he awakens. Oberon applies the juice to Titania in order to
distract her and force her to give up the page-boy.
Having seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, Oberon orders Puck to spread some of the juice on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. Instead, Puck puts the juice on the eyes of Lysander, who then falls in love with Helena. When Oberon finds this out, he makes Puck apply the juice to Demetrius. Due to Puck's errors, Hermia's two lovers temporarily turn against her in favor of Helena. Helena, however, is convinced that her two suitors are mocking her, as neither loved her originally. The four pursue and quarrel with each other all night, losing themselves in the dark and in the maze of their romantic entanglements.
Meanwhile, a band of "rude mechanicals" (lower-class labourers) have arranged to perform a crude play about Pyramus and Thisbe for Theseus' wedding, and venture into the forest, near Titania's bower, for their rehearsal. Nick Bottom, a stage-struck weaver, is spotted by Puck, who transforms his head into that of an ass (donkey). Titania is awoken by Bottom's singing, and she immediately falls in love with him. Sh
e treats him as if he is a nobleman and lavishes attention upon him. While in this state of devotion, she encounters Oberon and casually gives him the Indian boy.
Having achieved his goals, Oberon releases Titania and orders Puck to remove the ass's head from Bottom. The magical enchantment is removed from Lysander but is allowed to remain on Demetrius, so that he may reciprocate Helena's love. 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. After they all exit, Bottom awakes, and he too decides that he must have experienced a dream "past the wit of man."
In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the mechanicals perform "Pyramus and Thisbe." It is ridiculous and badly performed but gives everyone pleasure regardless, and after the mechanicals dance a Bergomask (rustic dance), e
veryone retires to bed. Finally, as night falls, Oberon and Titania bless the house, its occupants, and the future children of the newlyweds, and Puck delivers an epilogue to the audience asking for applause.
This is one of the few comedy which Shakespeare have wrote, its boisterous and OK, perhaps that love has been deeply touched by the whole release, don’t forget the happiness with the people of the knowing smile. Although the "nobility of public entertainment in the Queen drama," but also let people see the world's omnipresent love - boundless, we should thanks Shakespeare for such a beautiful ending to it, let us know, love will be endless, love will be unwavering tenacity, love will be eternal - because love is you.
最幻不过梦，最美不过情。正如生活一样，爱是悲剧，也是喜剧，是梦与情的遇合。当我读着莎翁的名著《仲夏夜之梦》时，我总有一种想发笑的冲动。这本薄薄的册子着实让我感到惊讶，因为它诱使着我我去一口气读完可是却似乎无法这样读完。此时的我仿佛置身于山花烂漫的林间，美景应接不暇。
书中讲述了由“魔汁”引起的冲突及冲突被解决、有情人终成眷属的故事。有两个男青年拉山德（Lysander）、狄米特律斯（Demetrius）同时爱上了女青年郝米娅（Hermia），而郝米娅恋着拉山德，她的好友海丽娜（Helena）又恋着狄米特律斯。郝米娅为了反对包办婚姻和情人私奔，来到约定好的森林里。海丽娜将这一消息告诉了狄米特律斯，二人也跟着赶到了森林里。这个森林里本来住着仙王、仙后和侍奉他们的小仙、精灵，此时仙王、仙后正因为一个“换儿”（传说中仙人常于夜间将人家美丽的小儿窃去充做侍童）而不和。仙王为了让仙后做出让步，便派小精灵迫克（Puck）去取来魔汁（西方一朵纯洁的白小花因为误中了丘比特的爱情之箭，受创伤后而流出的汁液）以戏弄仙后。这种魔汁有这样的魔力：如果它滴在睡者的人的眼皮上，无论男女，醒来一眼看见的生物，就都会发疯似的爱上它。
因为魔汁的出现，整个故事发生了戏剧性的变化。魔汁滴在睡着的拉山德的眼皮上，他醒来时一眼看见的是误闯进来的海丽娜，因此而“移情别恋”，对海丽娜大献殷勤，这让可怜的郝米娅伤心万分；而狄米特律斯醒来时一眼看见的恰是被精灵引来的海丽娜，因而“旧情复燃”，这让可怜的海丽娜苦恼万分。两个同样美丽、善良的女孩如今一个被悲伤逼得要发疯、一个被惊喜冲昏了头脑，于是开始恶意地揣测甚至中伤起对方。而另外两个痴情的热血青年又在愤怒中为海丽娜而决斗。此刻我们发现这四个人分别在不同的方向跑着，读来令人忍俊不禁又顿生同情。幸福的斗争是如此艰难，天命弄人，可是这种斗争的过程并非一种痛苦，一种悲剧，而是一种有着快乐意味的戏剧性的东西。而在这个故事中，最具戏剧性的情节恐怕要数仙后在魔汁的作用下与一个闯入林中的织工荒唐的“相爱”。这个滑稽可笑的织工本来是和几个同是手艺人的伙伴们来林中来排戏，小精灵迫克使织工变成了一头更可笑的蠢驴，而仙后在接触魔汁后一觉醒来时正是看见了这个可怜的家伙。于是对于织工而言，“横祸”又变成了“横福”，因为他得到了尊贵的仙后的恩宠。这是多么不可思议的事情，又显得多么滑稽！而这一切都取决于魔汁的威力、仙王的旨意和小精灵迫克的顽皮。后来也正是按着仙王的旨意，魔力得以解除、情人终成眷属、仙人和好如初，仙界、人间复归太平.
这是莎翁为数不多的喜剧，热闹又美好，或许被那爱的全释深深感动，也不要忘了与民同乐的会心一笑。虽然是“于皇公贵族所消遣的戏剧”，却也让人们看到无所不在的爱的世界——无垠无边，要感谢莎士比亚给它如此美丽的结局，让我们知道，爱会永无止境，爱会坚贞顽强，爱会苦尽甘来，爱会永恒——因为爱是你。