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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare

In an enchanted Athenian forest, four young lovers flee the strictures of society, only to become pawns in a quarrel between fairy king Oberon and queen Titania. Shakespeare's comedy weaves together multiple plots of mismatched desire, theatrical bumbling, and magical transformation. A meditation on love's irrationality and the thin boundary between dreams and waking.

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