Description
Faced with a forced marriage, Hermia flees to a forest with her lover, Lysander. Her jilted fiancé, Demetrius, has followed them to reclaim his betrothed. He himself is pursued by another suitor, Helena, toward whom he is particularly dismissive.
An invisible observer in the woods, Oberon, the King of the Fairies, is outraged by this behavior. He asks a mischievous spirit, Puck, to apply a love potion under Demetrius’s eyelids and, at the same time, under those of his own Queen of the Fairies, Titania, with whom he is on bad terms. The potion causes one to fall madly in love with the first living creature that appears before one’s eyes. But Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius. As for Titania, she wakes up madly in love with a comedian wearing a satyr’s head who has come to perform a play with the craftsmen?
