The midsummer night's dream. / William Shakespeare ; edited by Harold Brooks.

edited by David Bevington.

One of the many astonishing achievements in A Midsumer Night's Dream(c.1594-1595)is its development of the motif of love as an imaginative journey from a world of social conflict into a fantasy world created by an artist,ending in a return to a rerality that has itself been parly transformed by the experience of the journey,.As the lovers in this play flee from the Athenian law to lose themselves in the forest,they reveal and discover in themselves the simultaneously hilarious and horrifying effects of sexual desire.Moreover,their juorney suggests the extent to which love or desire itself an act of imagination,not unlike the imagination that underlies the creation of art."In The Complete Works of Shakespeare "5th edition