
Indian fairy child to Oberon for use as his watchman. The couple is estranged after a disagreement wherein Titania refuses to hand over her Meanwhile, Oberon, the king of the fairies has come to the forest outside Athens with his queen Titania. Performance will scare the Duke and Queen into hanging them all. Nick Bottom, Robin Starveling, Tom Snout, and Snug, and annoyed by Nick Bottom's over-enthusiasm and don't agree with him that he should play multiple characters. Peter Quince, a player who plans on performing at the Duke and Queen's wedding, creates a production of "Pyramus and Thisbe," along with four other fellow players. Nun instead, and living in lifelong chastity. Duke Theseus offers Hermia the choice of becoming a The law forces a daughter to wed whatever suitor her father selects for her or face death. Place an ancient Athenian law under the Duke Theseus. Egeus is so irritated by his daughter's defiance that he puts into The play begins with a Hermia, who has been ordered by her father Egeus to marry Demetrius though she is in love with Lysander. Other characters include four youthful Athenian lovers and a set of six novice actors who are nicknamed 'The Mechanicals.' These beings are entirely controlled and their actions manipulated byįairies that rule the forest in which the play is set. The playĭocuments the series of events that surround the marriage of Duke of Athens, Theseus, to Hippolya.


It's exact date of completion unknown but generally assumed to be between 15. William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is one his most popular and performed works.
