Michael Hoffman does an incredible job capturing the mood 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 storyline. This Shakespearean comedy has undergone many transformations, being variously reimagined as a musical, a ballet, and more than a dozen films; and each time it has been subject to various interpretations. Michael Hoffman also had his own interpretation and adaptation of different characters and settings. One thing that might intrigue the viewer is Hoffman's adaptation of fairies and the fairy world. In the original play, fairies are depicted as mischievous, mystical creatures invisible to the human eye. Their penchant for dancing, their love of cleanliness and their propensity to ignore children is what makes them so fascinating. They also have a strange taste for real-world objects; that they occasionally steal. They form a community led by the fairy king Oberon and his queen Titania. The fairy kingdom is hidden from humans, in the mystical forest. It is an enchanted place where man-made rules are suspended and faerie magic is supreme. In the film, Hoffman does a great job capturing all of these characteristics of the fairy world. Much like the play, Hoffman depicts the fairy world as a beautiful and 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 languorous world as Shakespeare had originally portrayed it. In the film, fairies are depicted as mischievous creatures who like to interfere in the human world, which is similar to the depiction in the play. In the first scene of the film, fairies steal random objects from the real world to take 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 king of the fairies, Oberon, and the queen of the fairies, Titania are represented as divine creatures, who see and know everything. They considered themselves the parents of humans and felt it was their responsibility and duty to take care of them..