如果说奇妙的幻想性足以令人赏心悦目，那么书中那充满诗意和机敏的戏剧语言又更使人流连往返了。
雅典公爵忒修斯(Theseus)有着绅士的风雅，他一出场就有着浪漫的抒情。他把“旧月的消逝”比作“一个老而不死的后母或寡妇，尽是消耗着年轻人的财产”，“快乐”是“活泼泼”的，“忧愁”则是个“脸色惨白的家伙”，应该“驱到坟墓里去”。充满诗意的、风趣的语言恰如其分地表现了一个公爵的风度：高贵而自傲，儒雅而不失威严。他关于“幻想”的描绘也颇耐人寻味：“疯子、情人和诗人，都是幻想的产儿：疯子眼中所见的鬼，多过于广大的地狱所能容纳;情人，同样是那么疯狂，能从埃及人的黑脸上看见海伦的美貌;诗人的眼睛在神奇的狂放的一转中，便能从天上看到地下，从地下看到天上。”
如今我们对于疯子、情人、诗人三者关系的描述，也大抵如此，似乎他们已经融为一体了，而幻想不正是他们的共性吗?“幻想”这件奇妙的事情，通过诗意的语言的描绘，如拨云见日一般。
仙王和仙后之间即便是“口舌相攻”也饶有情趣。以下是他们在森林中偶遇时的对白：
仙王：“真不巧又在月光下遇见你，骄傲的提泰妮娅!”
仙后：“嘿!嫉妒的奥布朗!神仙们，快快走开;我已经发誓不和他同游同寝了。”
仙王：“等一等，坏脾气的女人!我不是你的夫君吗?”
仙后：“那么我也一定是你的尊贵的夫人了。”
仙王、仙后像凡人夫妻一样拌嘴，本身就是一件有趣的事，再加上略带讥诮的机敏的语言，更让人发笑。不过，莎翁“目无全牛”的境界更是体现在他钟情的敢于冲破封建羁绊、热情活跃的青年的男女们。
在作品开头的部分，有一段对白可见拉山德与郝米娅的真诚相爱：拉山德：“怎么啦，我的爱人!为什么你的脸颊这样惨白?你脸上的蔷薇怎么会凋谢得这样快?” 郝米娅：“多半是因为缺少雨露，但我眼中的泪涛可以灌溉它们。”
拉山德把爱人红润的面色比作“蔷薇”，面色的憔悴如“花之凋谢”;而郝米娅一方面把爱人的怜爱、爱情的滋润比作雨露，另一方面又用泪涛来委婉地表现自己此时的苦恼心境。
比起郝米娅，海丽娜对恋人的爱慕则表现得更为大胆、直露、热烈：“疾病是能染人的;哎!要是美貌也能传染的话，美丽的郝米娅，我但愿染上你的美丽：我要让我的耳朵捕获你的声音……要是除了狄米特律斯之外，整个世界都是属于我所有，我愿意把一切捐弃，但求化身为你。啊!教给我怎样流转眼波，用怎么一种魔力操纵着狄米特律斯的心?”
当海丽娜向狄米特律斯告知拉山德和郝米娅私奔的消息，并跟随他来到森林时，她的好心并没有得到好报，反而要为自己或是一时的所谓“愚蠢”付出代价。狄米特律斯讨厌她，让她“滚开”，海丽娜却说：“是你吸引我来的，你这硬心肠的磁石!可是你所吸引的却不是铁，因为我的心像钢一样坚贞。要是你去掉你的吸引力，那么我也就没有力量再跟着你了。”
当狄米特律斯厌恶地说：“不要过分惹起我的厌恨吧;我一看见你就头痛。”海丽娜这样答道：“可是我不看见你就心痛。”当狄米特律斯又奚落她不顾虑自己的体面，甚至不珍惜自己的贞操时，海丽娜不无温情地反驳道：“你的德行使我安心这样做：因为当我看见你的面孔的时候，黑夜也变成了白昼，因此我并不觉得现在是在夜里;你在我的眼里是整个世界，因此在这座森林中我也不愁缺少伴侣：要是整个时间都在这儿瞧着我，我怎么还是单身独自一人呢?”
当狄米特律斯对海丽娜的默默温情依然熟视无睹，甚至威胁着要“任凭野兽来处置”可怜的海丽娜时，后者仍然倔强地讥诮道：“最凶恶的野兽也不像你那样残酷。”充满诗意的抒情和机敏的辩驳不仅让负心的狄米特律斯“理屈词穷”，而且也让仙王生了同情之心。海丽娜的形象也因此跃然纸上，刻画得栩栩如生，变得可爱可敬。
书中还有一处对白彰显着海丽娜的人格，而且也是妙趣横生。(此时拉山德因为魔汁的缘故视曾经心爱的郝米娅为“过饱的甜食”和“异端邪说”)拉山德：“当我向她起誓的时候，我实在一点见识都没有。”
海丽娜：“照我想起来，你现在把她丢弃了，也不像是有见识的。”
糊涂与理智在海丽娜机敏的回答中得以凸现，使她的形象更为鲜明、可爱。
当然，书中诸如小仙们与织工之间的“调侃”以及穿插在书中的滑稽戏剧等，无一不是幻想、诗意与机敏的结晶，令人赏心悦目，流连往返。《仲夏夜之梦》的魅力由此可见一斑，我惟有感慨与其相见恨晚了。
篇19：仲夏夜之梦英文读后感
仲夏夜之梦英文读后感
A Midsummer Nights Dream (仲夏夜之梦) is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors in a moonlit forest, and their interactions with the fairies who inhabit it and Duke of the Athenians. The play is one of Shakespeares most popular and is widely performed across the world. The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta. In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to comply with her father Egeuss wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius. In response, Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity worshipping Diana as a nun. The word in this sense is an anachronism. Hermia and her lover Lysander therefore decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night. Hermia informs her best friend Helena, but Helena has recently been rejected by Demetrius and decides to win back his favor by revealing the plan to him. Demetrius, followed doggedly by Helena, chases Hermia, who, in turn, chases Lysander, from whom she becomes separated. Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania, arrive in the same forest to attend Theseus and Hippolytas wedding. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian page-boy to Oberon for use as his knight or henchman, since the childs mother was one of Titanias worshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titanias disobedience and recruits the mischievous Puck (also called Hobgoblin and Robin Goodfellow) to help him apply a magical juice from a flower called love-in-idleness, which makes the victim fall in love with the first living thing he sees when he awakens. Oberon applies the juice to Titania in order to distract her and force her to give up the page-boy. Having seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, Oberon orders Puck to spread some of the juice on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. Instead, Puck puts the juice on the eyes of Lysander, who then falls in love with Helena. When Oberon finds this out, he makes Puck apply the juice to Demetrius. Due to Pucks errors, Hermias two lovers temporarily turn against her in favor of Helena. Helena, however, is convinced that her two suitors are mocking her, as neither loved her originally. The four pursue and quarrel with each other all night, losing themselves in the dark and in the maze of their romantic entanglements. Meanwhile, a band of rude mechanicals (lower-class labourers) have arranged to perform a crude play about Pyramus and Thisbe for Theseus wedding, and venture into the forest, near Titanias bower, for their rehearsal. Nick Bottom, a stage-struck weaver, is spotted by Puck, who transforms his head into that of an ass (donkey). Titania is awoken by Bottoms singing, and she immediately falls in love with him. She treats him as if he is a nobleman and lavishes attention upon him. While in this state of devotion, she encounters Oberon and casually gives him the Indian boy. Having achieved his goals, Oberon releases Titania and orders Puck to remove the asss head from Bottom. The magical enchantment is removed from Lysander but is allowed to remain on Demetrius, so that he may reciprocate Helenas love. The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt. They wake the lovers and, since Demetrius doesnt love Hermia anymore, Theseus over-rules Egeuss demands and arranges a group wedding. The lovers decide that the nights events must have been a dream. After they all exit, Bottom awakes, and he too decides that he must have experienced a dream past the wit of man. In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the mechanicals perform Pyramus and Thisbe. It is ridiculous and badly performed but gives everyone pleasure regardless, and after the mechanicals dance a Bergomask (rustic dance), everyone retires to bed. Finally, as night falls, Oberon and Titania bless the house, its occupants, and the future children of the newlyweds, and Puck delivers an epilogue to the audience asking for applause篇20：《仲夏夜之梦》英文读后感
《仲夏夜之梦》英文读后感
Having read a play named A Midsummer Night Dream which was one of Shakespeare’s earlier plays, I gained a lot of significant matters. Fairies, dreams and lovers are the three main elements.
From the beginning, there was a tough triangle love among lovers, the kind King in order to keep them from endless distress, he sent his fairy to pick up a purple peculiar juice and dropped it into lovers’ eyes that they will fall in love with anyone they first see. However, things getting worse and worse resulted from the careless fairy mistaking with two hostile men. Experienced ups and downs, all of lovers found their real mate. All the sad , complex and odd memories changed into a dream, the same dream in lovers’ mind. Furthermore, the duke in the play was a nice person , he didn’t look down upon the poor instead of “enjoying the simple language of unintelligent people”， and he allowed lovers to hold weddings together.
As far as I am concerned, I love this fairy tale presented by Shakespeare. Every word is in the expectation of sweet , perfect love .Meanwhile , their world was not a matter of fact , but there really existed a big distinction between their world and ours ? Should we learn something useful from that ? I think so.
