What, can you do me greater harm than hate?
Hate me? Wherefore? O me, what news, my love?
Am not I Hermia? Are not you Lysander?
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 2. A stunned Hermia cannot understand Lysander’s sudden change from love to hatred of her. She says that she still is the same person that she was when Lysander loved her, and asks is he not Lysander. But the audience knows that he is not quite the same anymore, having been transformed by a fairy spell – an example of dramatic irony.