A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Summary The desire for well-matched love and the struggle to achieve it drives the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream . The play opens on a note of desire, as Theseus, Duke of Athens, waxes poetic about his anticipated wedding to Hippolyta. The main conflict is introduced when other lovers’ troubles take center stage. The question of who the characters should love versus who they do love drives the plot from this point on. Th...