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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by William Shakespeare.
There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magic too. What happens when love and laughter come together with magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was written in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been retold for Bookworms, not as a play, but as a story.
The more I hate, the more he follows me.
Reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
I would my father look’d but with my eyes.
- On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.
- Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.