who gets married in a midsummer nights dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream David Bevington argues that the play represents the dark side of love. He writes that the fairies make light of love by mistaking the lovers and by applying a love potion to Titania's eyes, forcing her to fall in love with an ass.[8] In the forest, both couples are beset by problems. Hermia and Lysander are both met by Puck, who provides some comic relief in the play by confounding the four lovers in the forest. However, the play also alludes to serious themes. At the end of the play, Hippolyta and Theseus, happily married, watch the play about the unfortunate lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe, and are able to enjoy and laugh at it.[9] Helena and Demetrius are both oblivious to the dark side of their love, totally unaware of what may have come of the events in the forest.
A Midsummer Night's Dream The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers' Company on 8 October 1600 by the bookseller Thomas Fisher, who published the first quarto edition later that year.[4] A second quarto was printed in 1619 by William Jaggard, as part of his so-called False Folio.[4] The play next appeared in print in the First Folio of 1623. The title page of Q1 states that the play was "sundry times publickely acted" prior to 1600.[5] The first performance known with certainty occurred at Court on 1 January 1605.