| Act 1 | Egeus wants Hermia to marry a man named Demetrius, but Hermia wants to marry a man named Lysander. Egeus goes to the Duke and asks if his daughter doesn’t marry his man of choice, if he can kill her or make her a nun and the Duke agrees. |
| Act 2 | Oberon, king of the fairies, and Titania, queen of fairies, get into a fight over out a new child of the Indian king that Titania has acquired. Oberon devises a plan to get back on Titania that involves a flower, whose juice makes you fall in love with the first person you see. Oberon plans this so he can embarrass Titania. Oberon tells Puck, his assitant to use the juice on a Demetrius, who Helena is chasing, to make him fall in love with her. |
| Act 3 | The plan Oberon has works and Titania falls in love with an actor in a play. The assignment Oberon gave Puck backfires. Hermia and Helena get in a fight because the flower juice was used on Lysander and Demetrius, and they fall in love with Helena. Helena thinks Hermia made them do this as a joke to trick Helena, and Hermia thinks Helena is stealing her man. Oberon and Puck have to fix it using a magic dust that makes them fall asleep and then reverses all the love spells. |
| Act 4 | Titania is sleeping with Bottom when Oberon comes and puts antidote herb on her eyes. Titania realizes she had been in love with a fool and falls in love with Oberon again. Then Egeus, Duke Theseus, and Hippolyta find Demetrius, Helena, Lysander, and Hermia in the woods asleep. When they awake Hermia and Lysander show each other affection while Helena and Demetrius fall in love. Egeus is enraged, but Theseus says that he changes his decision and says that the two groups of young lovers will get married with him and Hippolyta in a tripple wedding. |
| Act 5 | The setting is back in Athens, Greece. The wedding is over and everyone is partying. A play is then put on. The play is very stupid and not very good. When the play is over everyone laughs and applauds. Oberon, Titania, Puck, and the fairies then come to the palace to bless it with happiness. |
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” plot summaries
August 9, 2019