Tong Shu calendar: "The Dream of Midsummer Night": a dreamy, funny joyful comedy

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This illustration is from "Shakespeare to Children" published in London in 1908, depicting a scene in the drama "The Dream of Midsummer Night".

"The Dream of Midsummer Night" tells the story of a "mess", a lover eventually becomes a family member. In the midsummer night, in the city of Athens, the Duke Turns and his fiancee are preparing for the wedding, but another pair of lover is worrying about love. The beautiful Hemia fell in love with Laushan, but her father insisted on letting her marry Dimites. In order to fulfill his love dream, Hemia fled into the forest with his lover La Shande.

In the forest, after the fairy king made the immortal, he asked the little elf Parker to drop the "love water" on the eyes of the sleeping fairy, so that the queen to fall in love with the first person to wake up. In the process of completing the task, Parker's wrong "love water" made the four young people in the forest confuse the objects of each other's love and created a series of misunderstandings and jokes. At the end of the story, the fairy king came out to eliminate chaos, and the ending was successful.

"The Dream of Midsummer Night" is recognized as the first masterpiece of Shakespeare, the most comedy in Shakespeare, and the most popular comedy for the audience.

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