Overview
Una de las comedias más populares de Shakespeare de todos los tiempos.
En la víspera de las bodas de Teseo e Hipólita, Atenas se llena de tensiones amorosas: Hermia ama a Lisandro, pero su padre la obliga a casarse con Demetrio, mientras Helena persigue desesperadamente el amor de este. Los cuatro huyen al bosque, sin sospechar que allí reinan Oberón y Titania, monarcas de las hadas, y que un duende travieso, está a punto de desatar el caos con una flor encantada que vuelve loco el deseo.
Entre hechizos, celos y confusiones de identidad, la noche convierte el amor en un laberinto cómico y peligroso. Y, como espejo burlesco, un grupo de artesanos prepara una obra dentro de la obra para celebrar la boda ducal. Al amanecer, la magia revela lo frágil y lo maravilloso de lo que llamamos realidad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. It is Shakespeare’s mythical romantic comedy. The story includes numerous sub-plots revolving around the main plot of the marriage Theseus and Hippolyta in Ancient Athens.
Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.
Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.”
En la víspera de las bodas de Teseo e Hipólita, Atenas se llena de tensiones amorosas: Hermia ama a Lisandro, pero su padre la obliga a casarse con Demetrio, mientras Helena persigue desesperadamente el amor de este. Los cuatro huyen al bosque, sin sospechar que allí reinan Oberón y Titania, monarcas de las hadas, y que un duende travieso, está a punto de desatar el caos con una flor encantada que vuelve loco el deseo.
Entre hechizos, celos y confusiones de identidad, la noche convierte el amor en un laberinto cómico y peligroso. Y, como espejo burlesco, un grupo de artesanos prepara una obra dentro de la obra para celebrar la boda ducal. Al amanecer, la magia revela lo frágil y lo maravilloso de lo que llamamos realidad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. It is Shakespeare’s mythical romantic comedy. The story includes numerous sub-plots revolving around the main plot of the marriage Theseus and Hippolyta in Ancient Athens.
Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.
Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.”
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