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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Egeus - Term Papers

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Egeus

The play " A Midsummer Night's Dream " was written by a famous play writer Shakespeare. The play opens in the royal palace in Athens, Greece. Theseus, very famous and popular ruler has fallen in love with their beautiful queen of Amazon, Hippolyta. The Duke announced at the beginning of the play that they will get married in five days. At this point, Egeus, a wealthy Athenian, brings his daughter Hermia before the Duke. Hermia had fallen in love with Lysander, a young man of whom her father disapproves. Egeus wishes his daughter to marry Demetrius and complains that Lysander has stolen her heart with poems and serenades.
Egeus says and the Duke confirms that she must do as her father ...

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gladly agrees and they decide to meet the following night in a wood a couple miles from Athens. At this moment Helen, Hermia's good friend appears, so they tell her about their plan and she promises to help the lovers. Helena, who is hopelessly in love with Demetrius, rushing to try to win his favor by telling him of Hermia's plan to elope. Demetrius got very upset and he hurries away to stop the elopement, but Helena follows him. Peter Quince a carpenter and a group of common laboring men are preparing a short comic play, to be performed before Theseus and Hippolyta in the evening after their marriage and the star of the play is Nick Bottom. The rehearsal is set to take place the next night in the wood outside of Athens- the same wood in which Hermia and Lysander are set to meet. The night in question is Midsummer's Eve, a time of great rejoicing and mischief among the fairies who lived in the wood. Oberon, Their king, and Titania, their queen, have quarreled over possession of a ...

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Added: 3/16/2007 11:12:53 AM
Category: Arts
Type: Free Paper
Words: 870
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