A Midsummer Night’s Dream (AXORA)

Name: A Midsummer Night's Dream (AXORA)
SKU: 77465
Availability: InStock

₦1,500.00

Within Theseus’s world of Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into marriageable couples, but only after one triangle, with Hermia at the apex and Helena, excluded, is temporarily replaced by another, this time with Helena at the apex and Hermia excluded. The fickle young men think they are behaving rationally and responsibly as infatuation leads them into fierce claims and counter-claims, and the audience is shown the power of desire to take over one’s actions.

In the woods outside of Athens, where the lovers suffer their strange love experiences, we find yet other images of desire, these involving the King and Queen of Fairyland and an Athenian weaver transformed into an ass-headed monster. King Oberon and Queen Titania are engaged in a near-epic battle over custody of an orphan boy, the king uses magic to make the queen fall in love with the monster. The monster named Bottom is the victim of magic. The love experience of Titania and Bottom is playing out of the familiar “Beauty and the Beast” story, and like the stories of the young lovers, it makes us wonder at the power of infatuation to transform the image of the beloved in the lover’s eyes. Is love truly a rational force, or does it hold within it the seeds of chaos and caprice?

4 in stock

About the Author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist. Shakespeare’s works, totaling 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and several other poems, were written throughout his career, which is believed to have begun in the late 1580s. Shakespeare was a key figure in the English Renaissance, and his works continue to be performed, adapted, and studied worldwide. His ability to craft beautiful poetry and profound insights into the human condition has had a lasting impact on literature and drama.