<P> The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt . They wake the lovers and, since Demetrius no longer loves Hermia, Theseus over-rules Egeus's demands and arranges a group wedding . The lovers decide that the night's events must have been a dream . After they exit, Bottom awakes, and he too decides that he must have experienced a dream "past the wit of man ." </P> <P> In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the six workmen perform Pyramus and Thisbe . The performers are so terrible playing their roles that the guests laugh as if it were meant to be a comedy, and everyone retires to bed . Afterwards, Oberon, Titania, Puck, and other fairies enter, and bless the house and its occupants with good fortune . After all the other characters leave, Puck "restores amends" and suggests that what the audience experienced might just be a dream . </P> <P> It is unknown exactly when A Midsummer Night's Dream was written or first performed, but on the basis of topical references and an allusion to Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion, it is usually dated 1595 or early 1596 . Some have theorised that the play might have been written for an aristocratic wedding (for example that of Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley), while others suggest that it was written for the Queen to celebrate the feast day of St. John, but no evidence exists to support this theory . In any case, it would have been performed at The Theatre and, later, The Globe . Though it is not a translation or adaptation of an earlier work, various sources such as Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" served as inspiration . According to John Twyning, the play's plot of four lovers undergoing a trial in the woods was intended as a "riff" on Der Busant, a Middle High German poem . </P> <P> According to Dorothea Kehler, the writing period can be placed between 1594 and 1596, which means that Shakespeare had probably already completed Romeo and Juliet and had yet to start working on The Merchant of Venice . The play belongs to the early - middle period of the author, when Shakespeare devoted his attention to the lyricism of his works . </P>

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