Dec 27, 2009
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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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