By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
William Shakespeare, the immortal playwright, narrates a very delightful tale of joy and mirth in his comedy ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ which has remained one of his most popular works across the world even to this day, a full four centuries after his death. It portrays the events connected with the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the Queen of Amazons. These include the very enjoyable adventures on a full moon night of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six actors who are manipulated by fairies inhabiting a magical forest. But the tale I am narrating here is of a Midsummer Nightmare that is set in the midst of our own, all-too-real lives.
