Michael Hoffman does an incredible job of capturing the feelings and emotions of the Shakespearean comedy “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. With a fresh, contemporary look, Hoffman gives the 16th century play a modern flavor while remaining faithful to the original script. This Shakespearean comedy has undergone numerous transformations, having been variously reinvented as a musical, a ballet and in more than a dozen films; and each time it has been subjected to various interpretations. Michael Hoffman also interpreted and adapted the different characters and settings. One thing that might intrigue the viewer is Hoffman's adaptation of fairies and the fairy world. In the original work, fairies are portrayed as mischievous and mystical creatures invisible to the human eye. Their passion for dancing, their love for cleanliness and their penchant for abstracting children is what makes them so fascinating. They also have a strange fondness for real-world objects; who occasionally steal. They form a community, ruled by the fairy king Oberon and his queen Titania. The fairy kingdom is hidden from humans, within the mystical forest. It is an enchanted place where man-made rules are suspended and where fairy magic is supreme. In the film Hoffman does a great job of capturing all these characteristics of the fairy world. Just as in the play, Hoffman portrays the fairy world as a beautiful, lush natural world, ruled by the fairy king Oberon and his queen Titania. Some might say that Hoffman “sees the fairy world simply as a kingdom in exile, driven into the woods by the triumph of Christianity” (Alleva), but not as a languid world that Shakespeare had originally described. In the film, fairies are portrayed as mischievous creatures who like to interfere in the human world, which is similar to the portrayal in the play. In the first scene of the film, the fairies are shown stealing random objects from the real world to bring with them to the fairy world as trophies and souvenirs. In a later scene, a group of fairies are shown dancing, singing and getting drunk in the enchanted forest. The fairy king, Oberon, and the fairy queen, Titania, are depicted as divine creatures, who see and know everything. They saw themselves as the parents of humans and felt that it was their responsibility and duty to take care of them.