求介绍《仲夏夜之梦》的故事梗概,英文的.语言要地道,要有中文翻译.

求介绍《仲夏夜之梦》的故事梗概,英文的.语言要地道,要有中文翻译.
求介绍《仲夏夜之梦》的故事梗概,英文的.语言要地道,要有中文翻译.

求介绍《仲夏夜之梦》的故事梗概,英文的.语言要地道,要有中文翻译.
Characters
Puck,Hobgoblin,faun or Robin Goodfellow
Oberon,King of Fairies
Titania,Queen of Fairies
Lysander,beloved of Hermia
Hermia,in love with Lysander
Helena,in love with Demetrius
Demetrius,in love with Hermia but then falls in love with Helena
later on
Egeus,father of Hermia
Theseus,Duke of Athens
Hippolyta,Queen of the Amazons and betrothed of Theseus
Nick Bottom,weaver,Pyramus in the play,"Pyramus and Thisbe",who is very full of himself.
Peter Quince,carpenter
Francis Flute,bellows-mender
Robin Starveling,tailor
Tom Snout,tinker
Snug,joiner
Philostrate,Master of the Revels
Peaseblossom,fairy
Cobweb,fairy
Moth (sometimes rendered as 'Mote'),fairy
Mustardseed,fairy
Synopsis
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 ancient 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.She 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),everyone 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.

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Theseus, duke of Athens, is preparing for his marriage to Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, with a four-day festival of pomp and entertainment. He commissions his Master of the Revels, Philostrate, to ...

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Theseus, duke of Athens, is preparing for his marriage to Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, with a four-day festival of pomp and entertainment. He commissions his Master of the Revels, Philostrate, to find suitable amusements for the occasion. Egeus, an Athenian nobleman, marches into Theseus’s court with his daughter, Hermia, and two young men, Demetrius and Lysander. Egeus wishes Hermia to marry Demetrius (who loves Hermia), but Hermia is in love with Lysander and refuses to comply. Egeus asks for the full penalty of law to fall on Hermia’s head if she flouts her father’s will. Theseus gives Hermia until his wedding to consider her options, warning her that disobeying her father’s wishes could result in her being sent to a convent or even executed. Nonetheless, Hermia and Lysander plan to escape Athens the following night and marry in the house of Lysander’s aunt, some seven leagues distant from the city. They make their intentions known to Hermia’s friend Helena, who was once engaged to Demetrius and still loves him even though he jilted her after meeting Hermia. Hoping to regain his love, Helena tells Demetrius of the elopement that Hermia and Lysander have planned. At the appointed time, Demetrius stalks into the woods after his intended bride and her lover; Helena follows behind him.
In these same woods are two very different groups of characters. The first is a band of fairies, including Oberon, the fairy king, and Titania, his queen, who has recently returned from India to bless the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. The second is a band of Athenian craftsmen rehearsing a play that they hope to perform for the duke and his bride. Oberon and Titania are at odds over a young Indian prince given to Titania by the prince’s mother; the boy is so beautiful that Oberon wishes to make him a knight, but Titania refuses. Seeking revenge, Oberon sends his merry servant, Puck, to acquire a magical flower, the juice of which can be spread over a sleeping person’s eyelids to make that person fall in love with the first thing he or she sees upon waking. Puck obtains the flower, and Oberon tells him of his plan to spread its juice on the sleeping Titania’s eyelids. Having seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, he orders Puck to spread some of the juice on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. Puck encounters Lysander and Hermia; thinking that Lysander is the Athenian of whom Oberon spoke, Puck afflicts him with the love potion. Lysander happens to see Helena upon awaking and falls deeply in love with her, abandoning Hermia. As the night progresses and Puck attempts to undo his mistake, both Lysander and Demetrius end up in love with Helena, who believes that they are mocking her. Hermia becomes so jealous that she tries to challenge Helena to a fight. Demetrius and Lysander nearly do fight over Helena’s love, but Puck confuses them by mimicking their voices, leading them apart until they are lost separately in the forest.
When Titania wakes, the first creature she sees is Bottom, the most ridiculous of the Athenian craftsmen, whose head Puck has mockingly transformed into that of an ass. Titania passes a ludicrous interlude doting on the ass-headed weaver. Eventually, Oberon obtains the Indian boy, Puck spreads the love potion on Lysander’s eyelids, and by morning all is well. Theseus and Hippolyta discover the sleeping lovers in the forest and take them back to Athens to be married—Demetrius now loves Helena, and Lysander now loves Hermia. After the group wedding, the lovers watch Bottom and his fellow craftsmen perform their play, a fumbling, hilarious version of the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. When the play is completed, the lovers go to bed; the fairies briefly emerge to bless the sleeping couples with a protective charm and then disappear. Only Puck remains, to ask the audience for its forgiveness and approval and to urge it to remember the play as though it had all been a dream.

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Shakespeare’s comedy,“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, takes place during the summer solstice. This day has long been thought of as a time of magic. In the spirit1 of this tradition, the play is...

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Shakespeare’s comedy,“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, takes place during the summer solstice. This day has long been thought of as a time of magic. In the spirit1 of this tradition, the play is set in a dark forest2 full of fairies.
In the play, Oberon, king of fairies, quarrels3 with his queen, Titania. Oberon tells his servant, Puck, to put a magic liquid on Titania’s eyes to make her fall in love with the first person she sees. At the same time, two young men and two young women are lost. Puck puts the liquid on the men’s eyes, and they both end up falling in love with one of the women.
Puck then sees an actor4 named Bottom. For fun, Puck decides to turn Bottom’s headsintosa donkey’s. Soon after, Titania sees Bottom and falls in love with him.
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Unhappy with the mess,1 Oberon orders Puck to change Bottom’s head back, and lifts the spell from Titania. He turns the four confused loverssintostwo happy couples. Everyone feels that the night’s strange events2 were just a dream.
At the end, Puck tells the audience3 that if they did not like the play, they should consider it as just that: a dream. In fact, many people have said that when the play ended, they were not sure whether what they saw was real, or whether they had shared the same dream.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”has stood the test of time. And likewise,4 there are people who still celebrate5 Midsummer. If you find yourself lost in a forest, lost in love, or lost in confusion on this day, perhaps Midsummer fairies will come to set things right for you, too.

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