Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play of love in which Shakespeare depicts a vivid picture of the mad-ness and irrationality in romantic love. Yet Shakespeare entitles this play"a dream"and concludes the play with a happy ending of marriage for all lovers. Shakespeare thus clearly views romantic love as an inevitable but short episode of life, an adolescent dream that should finally come to an end with the lovers'marriage which signifies their attainment of maturity and brings them back to reason and reality.
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