A Midsummer Night's Dream! - very funny!

LOL! I love this Shakesphere CLassic Comedy!

A Midsummer Night's Dream is so funny!
My favorite character is Puck and Lysander!

All of these characters are great and make me
laugh everytime I read it!

Anyone else love this classic??

I do! Bottom is my favorite character. He's such a rediculous ham!
These are probably my favorite lines from the whole play. I love how he thinks he's so eloquent when he repeats words just to try and keep the rhythm and rhyme up. (Sadly, my Grannie reminds me a little of Bottom, because she does the same thing! :p I think that's why I love spending time with her, she's so entertaining! :lol: )

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
Now am I dead,
Now am I fled;
My soul is in the sky:
Tongue, lose thy light;
Moon take thy flight:

Exit Moonshine

Now die, die, die, die, die.

Me too. :thumbs_up

I love it when Puck goes and confusses everyone!

Libra Swords, have you read Neil Gaiman's Dream Country?

I love this play, Demetreus and Helena are my fave caracters. He is so real and just like so many men, but she is a love sick girl that thinks the whole world looks down on her....

I love the songs and spells in a midsummer nights dream, especially Pucks epilogue:

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here,
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding than a dream,
Gentle's, do not reprehend,
If you pardon, we will mend,
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck,
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We shall make amends 'ere long.
Else the Puck a liar call,
So goodnight unto you all,
Give me your hands if we be friends
And Robin will restore amends.

Wouldn't it be great if life was like this..that at the end of a day all those wronged forgave and those that wronged were sorry and everyone lived happy ever after? But tis after all, a fairy story isn't it.

I could very nearly write a book about why this is my favorite play; but I could no more pick a favorite character than I could pick a favorite child. I love Puck, Oberon, Titania, Hermia, Lysander, Bottom for reasons to numerous to list. I think I enjoy Lysander because of some of his lines. In my opinion, he has some of the best ones. I love it when he asks Demetrius if he wants to marry Egeus instead of Hermia, since Egeus loves Demetrius so much. There's also a speech further in the first scene that I absolutely love:

"Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion."

Definitely my favorite play.

I have just finished reading A Midsummer Night's Dream and I had a blast! I loved Bottom and his mates!

It's good to hear how so many of you liked it. In school I fell asleep on a sunny day at the back of the room when this play was being aired. I guess I was having my own midsummer dream. It's only later that I got the jokes and fun