A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare was written in 1595-96 and was published in 1600. It is a romantic comedy in five acts.
Through his characters Shakespeare portrays real life situations when it comes to love.
For example, two people being madly in love, as well as the contrary, when one is in love with another but the feeling is not mutual.
The way he combines all these situations can not only relate to today's society but gives it a humorous touch you can not get enough of:

Here are some excerpts from the play:

Hermia:

'If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,

it stands as an edict in destiny'

Helena:

'Love can transpose to form and dignity:

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.'

Helena:

'Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:

We cannot fight for love, as men may do'

Theseus:

The lunatic, the lover and the poet

Are of imagination all compact:

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,

That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:

The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

Theseus:

'Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity

In least speak most, to my capacity'

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