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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is another Shakespearean comedy, a play revolving around the idea of mismatched lovers. The story further gets complicated by a group of actors and the fairies that live in the forest. The four lovers are Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius. Oberon and his with Titania are the King and Queen of the Fairies who play tricks on the lovers, as does Puck. The actors enter the enchanted forest and rehearse a play Pyramus and Thisbe. All their paths cross eventually and everyone ends up with who they really love. (Alchin)
The movie Get Over It from 2001 also incorporates the idea of a play within a play, showing the main characters in a high school setting, getting ready to perform a high school play, conviently A Midsummer Night's Dream. The play and the movie plot line become interwoven with lovers who secretly love eachother but can't find their way to one another until the end. ("Get Over It [film]")
This film, like Twelfth Night, does a good job of being current in pop culture by placing the play in a contemporary high school setting, matching up Shakespeare's characters with characters in the movie they can relate to.