ACT I Midsummer Night's Dream

Title: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Author: William Shakespeare

Date: 1595 app

Period/Style/Genre: Drama

Number of characters: 14

Setting: Scene 1 --> Palace of Theseus, Athens

               Scene 2 --> Athens, Quince’s House

Character name/age/genre/other:

-Theseus/ Young adult/ Male/ Duke of Athens
-Egeus/ Middle adult/ Male/ Father of Hermia, wants her to marry Demetrius
-Hermia/ Young adult/ Female/ In love with Lysander
-Lysander/ Young adult/ Male/ In love with Hermia
-Demetrius/ Young adult/ Male/ Also in love with Hermia, at first, but later love Helena
-Helena/ Young adult/ Female/ In love with Demetrius
-Hippolyta/ Middle adult/ Female/ Queen of the amazons, betrothed to Theseus
-Philostrate/ Middle adult/ Male/ Master of the Revels

Summary: The scene starts with the wedding preparations of Theseus and Hippolyta, then Egeus, Hermia, Lysander and Demetrius enter. Egeus congratulate Theseus and tell him his complain, he was planning to marry her daughter with Demetrius, but Lysander was flirting with her and make her fall in love with him. Then Hermia starts complaining about the situation saying that Lysander is a good man to marry her. Then Theseus advice her to follow her dad’s will. Then Lysander being ironic tells Demetrius “You have her father’s love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia’s: do you marry him”. Then enter Helena (she is in love with Demetrius), she starts ironically flattering Hermia, because she tell her that she would like to have her beauty so she could have Demetrius’s love. Hermia is angry because as she says "The more I hate, the more he follows me" (referring to Demetrius), and Helena is angry because as she says “The more I love, the more he hateth me” (referring to Demetrius).