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Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start—Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Rewatched the movie (1999) and can't stop thinking about this quote

mari

Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair?

Or rather do I not in plainest truth

Tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you?

And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius,

The more you beat me I will fawn on you.

Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me,

Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave

(Unworthy as I am) to follow you. What worser place can I beg in your love

(And yet a place of high respect with me)

Than to be usèd as you use your dog?

william wukkuan

So sorrow’s heaviness doth heavier grow

For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe,

Vaelynne

you run away into the forest with your forbidden lover but another prince and princess follow you and all four of you fight due to a spell from a fairy.. ♡

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