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... Midsummer Night's Dream Essay To what extent is the mechanicals' performance of Pyramus's and Thisby a success? A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare. The confusing love story involves four young adults, Helena, Lysander, Demetrius, and Hermia. The story becomes entangled when a fairy called Puck mistakenly applied a love potion to the wrong pair of lovers. At the start of the play, Egeus is making his daughter Hermia, marry Demetrius. Demetrius loves Hermia, but it is Hermia and Lysander who are deeply in love. Egeus forbids Hermia to marry Lysander so they elope and get lost in the woods. Demetrius hears that his love Hermia, has eloped with Lysander, and follows them. Helena, who is infatuated with Demetrius, is chasing him. All the lovers are now in the woods, and Puck makes his mischief. When the love potion is rubbed onto sleeping eyelids, when the person
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