# A Midsummer Night's Dream — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.

- [Act I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-i.md): A Midsummer Night's Dream — Stage Lens: dramatic beats, line helps that follow your scroll, and stage picture. Read to understand, not to collect a closed thesis.
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-i-scene-i.md): Theseus and Hippolyta discuss their upcoming wedding. Egeus enters with a complaint against his daughter Hermia, who refuses to marry Demetrius as her father commands, instead loving Lysander. Theseus gives Hermia until 
- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-i-scene-ii.md): The mechanicals gather at Quince's house to assign roles for their play, 'Pyramus and Thisbe,' to be performed at Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. Bottom eagerly volunteers for multiple parts, but Quince insists he play 
- [Act II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-ii.md): A Midsummer Night's Dream — Stage Lens: dramatic beats, line helps that follow your scroll, and stage picture. Read to understand, not to collect a closed thesis.
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-i.md): In the woods near Athens, Oberon and Titania quarrel over a changeling boy, causing natural chaos. Oberon sends Puck to fetch a love potion to trick Titania, and later witnesses Demetrius rejecting Helena, prompting him 

> 9 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=a_midsummer_nights_dream_446kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-ii-scene-ii.md)
- [Act III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-iii.md)
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-i.md)
- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-iii-scene-ii.md)
- [Act IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-iv.md)
- [Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-i.md)
- [Scene II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-iv-scene-ii.md)
- [Act V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-v.md)
- [Act V, Scene I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_midsummer_nights_dream_se/chapters/act-v-scene-i.md)

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