What you do for love

Out of all the characters, Bottom probablyfares the best –when the bewitched Titania lays eyes on him,she calls on her fairies to lavish him with wine and treasuresand sweeps the transfigured donkeyman off his feet:“pluck the wings from painted butterflies/To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.”While magic is the catalyst to the action,the play reflects the real drama of the things we do for love –and the nonsensical behavior of the people under its spell.