1. 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?

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

3. Act II
"A sweet Athenian lady is in love / With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes" ( ).
“Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, / As in revenge have sucked up from the sea / Contagious fogs” ( ).
“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 ” ( ).  
“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” ( ).

4. Act III
"Reason and love keep little company together nowadays." ( )
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"On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee." ( )

5. "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."

6. Act V
"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,.../ The lunatic, the lover, and the poet" ( ).
"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" ( ).
"Through the house give glimmering light.../ Will we sing and bless this place" ( ).

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