Project Gutenberg 2006-03-05 Public domain in the USA. 92 Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 Shakspeare, William Shakspere, William Guizot, François 1787 1874 Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, M. (François) Guisot, M. (François) Guizot, Monsieur (François) Guizot, François Midsummer Night's Dream. French Le songe d'une nuit d'été Produced by Paul Murray, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Le songe d'une nuit d'été" by William Shakespeare is a comedy written in the late 16th century. The play intertwines the lives of several characters, including lovers Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius, alongside royal figures such as Duke Theseus and the fairy king Oberon. The narrative explores themes of love, enchantment, and the nature of reality within the context of a magical forest setting. At the start of the play, we are introduced to Duke Theseus and his betrothed Hippolyta discussing their upcoming wedding in Athens while a love quarrel unfolds among aristocratic young lovers. Hermia is in love with Lysander but is being forced to marry Demetrius, who does not love her back. In the midst of their romantic entanglements, the fairy realm begins to influence the mortal world, setting the stage for a night filled with magic and misunderstandings. With Puck, a mischievous fairy, involved in the proceedings, the chaos of love and fantasy begins to unravel as characters find themselves entangled in unforeseen relationships and comic situations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Comedies Courtship -- Drama Athens (Greece) -- Drama Fairy plays PR Text FR Théâtre Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 188693 187465 2024-09-08T05:21:24.965464 2023-09-08T07:43:35.513919 text/html text/html 180993 2006-03-05T15:07:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 65561 2006-03-05T15:07:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 117670 2024-09-08T05:21:30.213359 application/epub+zip 120014 2024-09-08T05:21:26.423424 application/epub+zip 120014 2024-09-08T05:21:25.532404 application/epub+zip 236983 2024-09-08T05:21:32.816425 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 244184 2024-09-08T05:21:29.569402 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 244385 2022-09-08T13:47:52.998004 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 157721 157451 2024-09-08T05:21:24.207407 2023-09-08T07:43:34.915915 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 154008 2006-03-05T15:07:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 61067 2006-03-05T15:07:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20944 2024-09-08T05:21:32.957411 application/rdf+xml 11726 2024-09-08T05:21:25.894386 image/jpeg 3134 2024-09-08T05:21:25.711391 image/jpeg 116577 2024-09-08T05:21:24.981436 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia