MidSummer's Dream Form

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a midsummer night's dream is a comedy written by william shakespeare around the same time the playwright published romeo and juliet with several interweaving storylines the play takes place on the eve of a wedding between athenian noblemen theseus and amazonian queen hippolyta on mid-summer's eve this night is traditionally celebrated and commonly associated with temporary insanity and transformation the play opens as theseus the duke of athens prepares the city for a large festival to mark his imminent marriage to hippolyta the queen of the amazons he is interrupted when egius another nobleman enters accompanied by his beautiful daughter hermia the man she loves lysander and the man egias wants hermia to marry demetrius jesus begs theseus to invoke the ancient athenian right to either force his daughter to marry demetrius or have the right to kill her instead theseus declares that hermia can either marry demetrius or join a nunnery next lysander convinces hermia to sneak into the wood