Why Shakespeare chose to set it in the woods

I believe that Shakespeare chose to set the majority of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in the woods as, in the time that he was writing the forest would have been a place of the unknown and feared by many. They believed that the woods were placed where you could get attacked, murdered, or come face to face with creatures like fairies or witches. Hence why Titania, Oberon and their fairies live there. Setting it in the woods made Shakespeare able to make all the unusual things happen there as most people in that time were afraid of what went on in the woods and wouldn't enter - especially not noble women like Helena and Hermia.