A Midsummer Night's Dream

He is quite loving toward Hermia, brave enough to arguewith the duke, and noble in all his actions.

Because actors can be dramatic and they think that they were born for acting and the y don't want to miss out on doing something they love. THis is going for only some of the actors, others just think it's fun to act so they don't want to miss out.

she betrays her friends

Basically because Demetrius no longer wants to marry her. It is one thing to marry an unwilling bride to a willing bridegroom, but to order a wedding when the only person in favour of it is the father of the bride is ridiculous. Everyone sees this except Egeus.

Hermia

Cause people can relate to it and it is funny and dramatic and people like shakespeare cause he can shake it

Hippolyta is the Queen of the Amazons, who is betrothed to Theseus, the Duke of Athens. In Greek mythology, these two legendary persons do in fact marry.

Well Oberon sure does, since he has a drug that can make anyone fall in love at first sight with anything.

Shakespeare wrote all of his plays for the same reason: it was his job. He was a professional playwright.

He could have had other reasons as well. Likely, he enjoyed the topics that he wrote about, and he thought that the parts would be funny and give the audience a laugh. He also often wrote specific lines into his plays that would make his benefactors pleased.

If this asked the question who WROTE, A Midsummer Nights Dream" I could tell you :

William Shakespeare

But as you ask who "Worte" the same I'm afraid I do not know. x

Like all the humans in the play, he lived in Athens.

Hermia has no interest in marrying Demetrius even though her father wants it and Demetrius wants it for much of the play. She speaks her mind freely before her father and is scornful with Demetrius who she suspects of doing away with Lysander. But surely it doesn't make her self-centered to know what she wants and to insist on it. She is understanding and supportive of Helena's bid for Demetrius' love. She has every concern for her friend (until she suspects her of stealing Lysander away). She is much less self-centered than her friend Helena.

There are a number of conflicts which drive the play. There is a conflict between Hermia and Lysander on the one hand and Egeus and Demetrius on the other over who should marry Hermia (and who should decide). Theseus' answer to Hermia causes friction with Hippolyta in many productions. As the lovers' plot develops, conflict erupts between Hermia and Helena.

The play starts also with conflict between Titania and Oberon over the Indian boy.

Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream are like partner plays: they are written in a similar style and there are many similarities between them. But it is as if they are mirror images of each other. R&J is a tragedy; Dream is a comedy. Dream uses the Pyramus and Thisbe story as a source of amusement; the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet is a similar story. On the other hand, in R&J, the story of the fairies (Queen Mab) is a dream, but in Dream, the fairies are the reality. In Dream, the law, after threatening to separate the lovers, allows them to unite; in R&J it pushes them apart.

Sparknotes, as well as many other websites, provides succinct summaries. Here's mine:

Duke Theseus of Athens is going to get married in 4 days. A man (Egeus) and his daughter (Hermia) approach Theseus with the following problem: Hermia wants to marry a man (Lysander), but Egeus wants Hermia to marry a different man (Demetrius). Both Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia. Theseus commands Hermia to obey her father. She refuses, and plans to elope outside Athens' jurisdiction with Lysander. She stupidly tells this plan to her friend Helena. Helena loves Demetrius, but Demetrius wants Helena to leave him alone. Helena tells Hermia's plan to Demetrius because she thinks he will show his gratitude by marrying her. This doesn't end up working in Helena's favor, but it stops Lysander and Hermia from leaving Athens. (Sorry, my hand is hurting so I have to stop here.)

There is the world of the court, of Theseus and Hippolyta. There is the world of the lovers. There is the world of the fairies. Finally, there is the world of the rude mechanicals.

I know i think that's it's actually very typical. Shakespeare has a style of somewhat serious, yet extremely funny plays. However, i do think that throughout this play in particular the fairies are somewhat unusual and the fact that Bottom is turned into a donkey is somewhat unusual too....but again i think it is kinda typical. Still has to do with love and hate like most of his plays do.

Good question. The only thing vaguely Greek about the play are Theseus and Hippolyta. Oberon and Titania are from German myth, Puck from English, and the mechanicals are obviously English and contemporary with Shakespeare. The lovers could fit in anywhere. Athens was not known for its laws about arranged marriages. The only reason why Theseus (and therefore Athens, of which he was a legendary king) may have been invoked is that his marriage to the Amazon queen Hippolyta was a significant part of his legend, and Shakespeare may have wanted a story where the main character was married. Quite frankly, the story would be more consistent if Theseus and Hippolyta were instead a very English Duke of Gloucester and his intended wife. However, it was probably more politic not to use the title of a real person, as people were jumpy about that sort of thing. Ancient Athens was remote, and safe.

Moon

Scholars have suggested that Spenser's Epithalamion, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the anonymous German poem Der Busant were sources for Shakespeare's play. All of these are pretty lame: the connection with Spenser is that Shakespeare appears to quote one line from Epithalamion; the connection with Chaucer is that Chaucer's knight tells the story of Bocaccio's Teseida, a story which Shakespeare and Fletcher later dramatized as The Two Noble Kinsmen, which includes the character of Theseus; Ovid is the source for the Pyramus and Thisbe story; Der Busant also has to do with someone going into a forest and going crazy.

Theseus has the role of an authority figure, blocking the romance of Hermia and Lysander, and providing the motivation for them to enter the forest. Later, in the same role, Theseus is able to provide reconciliation and resolution to the lovers' situation by allowing them to pair off in the way they desire.

Theseus and Hippolyta together provide the occasion of an upcoming marriage. This is the pretext for the mechanicals' play. Their wedding also becomes the event around which the final action in the play coalesces: the play Pyramus and Thisbe and the wedding of the lovers.

Theseus as an authority figure can only operate in the town; in the forest he is beyond his jurisdiction, which is why Hermia and Lysander go there. For so long as the action is in the forest, Theseus is absent. Oberon is the king there.

A Midsummer Nights Dream takes place in Athens, where there are many sharp and unfair laws. Where everything turns upside-down. The text starts in the court room of Theseus (Duke of Athens). A vexatious man named Egeus was having trouble with his daughter, Hermia because Hermia wants to marry Lysander but has to and refuses to marry Demetrius, who Helena loves. A lot of troubled relationships, magic, mischief and power appears in this story. It is a funny comedy that is full of wonder and excitement and enjoyable to read.

Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.

Four lines, almost the same as Mustardseed's:

"And I."

"Where shall we go?"

"Hail"

"Cobweb"