Demetrius tells Helena he is going to rape her if she did not stop pursuing him, but it never actually happens.
LOL. Good thinking, Demetrius. Tell some girl that's throwing herself at you that you'll...give her what she wants if she doesn't stop.
Hardly anything ever actually happens on stage in Shakespeare, thats what messengers are for. Having been fired in Mo, over a production of Mid Summers once , I can tell you that they prefer the Micky Rooney version. (Ofcourse that was before I got sober!!!) Puck is a Satyr, The kids defy their parents and run away to be lovers, They are innocent in terms of their experience but not in their intentions etc, Its a darker play than is normally thought of, its a comedy - meaning everyone gets married in the end - But look at Oberons speech after the marriage where he blesses the house and hopes that none of them come down with wretched diseases or have disfigured children...its a rather jarring little marriage speech.. But its as appropriate for young people as the Bible is...No slaughter, rape or sinning in any of those Bible stories now is there!? People, gotta love em, those parents have the best of intentions. But Shakespeare is not G rated.