A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare Presented by Nolan Felty, Natalie Theis, Matthew Chung How and why does William Shakespeare develop the theme that love is magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Act I "Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth" (1. 1. 13). “This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child” (1. 1. 27). "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind" (1.1. 234-235).

Act II "A sweet Athenian lady is in love / With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes" (2. 1. 260-261). “Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, / As in revenge have sucked up from the sea / Contagious fogs” (2. 1. 88-90). “The spring, the summer, / The childing autumn, angry winter change / Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd world / By their increase knows not which is which ” (2. 1. 111-113).   “When thou wak’st let love forbid / Sleep his seat on thy eyelid. / So, awake when I am gone; / For I must now to Oberon” (2. 2. 86-89).

Act III "Reason and love keep little company together nowadays." (3.1.119-122) Click to add text "On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee." (3.1.114-118)

"I wot not by what power (But some power it is), my love to Hermia, Melted as the snow." 4.1.161-163 Act IV "Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, And will for evermore be true to it." 4.1.172-173

Act V "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,.../ The lunatic, the lover, and the poet" (5. 1. 4-7). "And the imagination bodies forth/ The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen/Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing/ A local habitation and a name" (5. 1. 14-17). "Through the house give glimmering light.../ Will we sing and bless this place" (5. 1. 369-388).

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