A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Most Beautiful Classic Plays of Shakespeare Author: [British] William Shakespeare Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most romantic of all Shakespeare's plays. The play tells the story of a pair of lovers, Hermia and Lysander, who fled from Athens due to their family's opposition and possible legal sanctions. Demetrius, who loved Hermia, and Helena, who was obsessed with Demetrius, followed the couple into the forest. At this time, the fairy king and the fairy queen in the forest were at odds over a "changeling". In order to make the fairy queen give in, the fairy king sent Puck to fetch magic juice to tease the fairy queen. This magic juice has such a magical power: if you drop it on the eyelids of a sleeping person, no matter whether it is a man or a woman, when they wake up, they will fall madly in love with the first creature they see. Because of the appearance of the magic juice, the whole story has changed dramatically...