Editing A Midsummer Night's Dream (section)

===Love===
[[File:Simmons-Hermia and Lysander. A Midsummer Night's Dream.jpg|thumb|''Hermia and Lysander'' by [[John Simmons (painter)|John Simmons]] (1870)]]
[[David Bevington]] argues that the play represents the dark side of love. He writes that the fairies make light of love by mistaking the lovers and by applying a love potion to Queen Titania's eyes, forcing her to fall in love with an ass.{{sfn|Bevington|1996|pp=24–35}} In the forest, both couples are beset by problems. Hermia and Lysander are both met by Puck, who provides some comic relief in the play by confounding the four lovers in the forest. However, the play also alludes to serious themes. At the end of the play, Hippolyta and Theseus, happily married, watch the play about the unfortunate lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe, and are able to enjoy and laugh at it.{{sfn|Bevington|1996|p=32}} Helena and Demetrius are both oblivious to the dark side of their love, totally unaware of what may have come of the events in the forest.