In my opinion, I loved this so much. It's charming and fun and hilarious and silly but it has a lot of heart- it's not just an empty comedy. There's wit and some really and the ridiculous things humans will do (with or without the help of forest nymphs) in the name of love. Also, an enchanted forest has got to be one of my favorite settings of all time, the heady summer air and a sense of magic really seeped through the pages.
Two of my favorite quotes, both by Robin Good fellow a.k.a. Puck (and I'm reciting from memory here, so bear with me):
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended.
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear,
And this weak and idle theme;
No more yielding but a dream..."
"Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand
And the youth, mistook by me
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (less)
In summary, An entertaining and amusing tale, filled with an inexhaustible richness of symbolicism, atmosphere and verbal complexity. After having seen Shakespeare as a writer of tragic and twisted stories dealing with death and schemes as major leitmotifs for many years, a light-hearted story like "A Midsummer Night's Dream" proved to be exactly the right one to convince me of the direct opposite: that Shakespeare can also masterfully create romantic comedies full of amusing allusions.