Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 1: The World of Fairies
Scene 1: The Fairy Kingdom
(Character List: King Oberon, Queen Titania, Puck, Fairy Attendants)
- The play opens with King Oberon and Queen Titania arguing over a young Indian prince they both want to adopt.
- Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania and sends Puck to find a magical flower called love-in-idleness, whose juice, when applied to the eyes, will make the person fall in love with the next creature they see.
- Oberon instructs Puck to find a young Athenian man named Demetrius and make him fall in love with Helena, who is in love with him.
Scene 2: The Forest
(Character List: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius)
- Hermia and Lysander escape into the forest so they can elope, as Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius.
- Demetrius chases after them, followed by Helena, who is desperately in love with him.
- Helena confesses her love to Demetrius, but he rejects her.
Scene 3: The Fairy Forest
(Character List: Puck, Fairy Attendants)
- Oberon and Puck overhear Helena and Demetrius arguing.
- Puck mistakenly applies the love-in-idleness on Lysander's eyes instead of Demetrius.
- Lysander wakes up and sees Helena, immediately falling in love with her.
英文话剧剧本Act 2: The Chaos in the Forest
Scene 1: The Fairy Forest
(Character List: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius)
- Hermia wakes up to find Lysander missing and goes to search for him.
- Hermia stumbles upon Demetrius, who is now also in love with Helena due to Puck's mistake.
Scene 2: The Fairy Forest
(Character List: Puck, Fairy Attendants, Bottom, Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling)
- Puck sees a group of amateur actors rehearsing a play in the forest.
- Puck decides to play a trick on them and transforms one of the actors, Bottom, into a donkey.
Scene 3: The Fairy Kingdom
(Character List: King Oberon, Queen Titania, Puck, Bottom, Fairy Attendants)
- Bottom, still transformed into a donkey, stumbles into Queen Titania's bedchamber.
- Titania, under the spell of the love-in-idleness, falls in love with Bottom.
- Oberon, satisfied with his trick, releases Titania and reverses the spells.
Act 3: The Reunion
Scene 1: The Fairy Forest
(Character List: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius)
- The four lovers, confused and bewildered, find each other in the forest.
- Puck intervenes and removes the spell from Lysander's eyes, thus restoring his love for Hermia.
Scene 2: The Fairy Forest
(Character List: Bottom, Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling, Fairy Attendants)
- The amateur actors perform their play, "Pyramus and Thisbe," for the Fairy King and Queen.
Act 4: The Morning After
Scene 1: Athens
(Character List: Theseus, Hippolyta, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius, Bottom, Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling)
- The story shifts back to Athens, the mortal world.
- Theseus and Hippolyta discover the lovers in the forest and try to understand what happened.
- Theseus decides to overrule Hermia's father and allow her to marry Lysander.
Scene 2: Athens
(Character List: Theseus, Hippolyta, Bottom, Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling)
- The amateur actors present their play to celebrate the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta.
- The play is filled with bumbling mistakes and adds humor to the festive occasion.
Act 5: The Wedding Feast
Scene: Athens
(Character List: Theseus, Hippolyta, Oberon, Titania, Puck, Fairy Attendants, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius, Bottom, Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling)
- The lovers are reunited, and their misunderstandings are resolved.
- Puck addresses the audience, asking them to remember the play as nothing more than a dream.
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