A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1600
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Setting: Athens
- Principal Characters: Theseus, Lysander, Demetrius, Bottom, Hippolyta, Hermia, Helena, Oberon, Titania, Puck
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Changelings or cuckoos, Folkloric or magical people, Love or romance, Supernatural, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Fairies
- Locales: Athens, ancient, Greece, ancient
The Story:
Theseus, the duke of Athens, was to be married in four days to Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, and he ordered his Master of the Revels to prepare suitable entertainment for the nuptials. Other lovers of ancient Athens, however, were not so happy as their ruler. Hermia, in love with Lysander, was loved also by Demetrius, who had her father’s permission to marry her. When she refused his suit, Demetrius took his case to Theseus and demanded that the law be invoked. Theseus upheld the father; by Athenian law, Hermia must either marry Demetrius, be placed in a...
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