Blog 6: First Draft

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act 1 Scene 1
Page 9

Theseus: Take time to pause, and by the next new moon,

The sealing-day betwixt my love and me

For everlasting bond of fellowship,

Upon that day either prepare to die

For disobedience to your father’s will,

Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,

Or on Diana’s altar to protest

For aye austerity and single life.

Demetrius: Relent, sweet Hermia; and, Lysander, yield

Thy crazed title to my certain right.

Lysander: You have her father’s love, Demetrius;

Let me have Hermia’s - do you marry him.

Egeus: Scornful Lysander, true, he hath my love,

And what is mine my love shall render him;

And she is mine, and all my right of her

I do estate unto Demetrius.

William Shakespeare is the author of the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, was baptized in 1564 and died in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1616. He was known as the best English poet and play writer. The play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has no date on when it was written. But it does have the first edition by the bookseller Thomas Fisher on 8 October 1600.



I have chosen this scene and act from the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream“, because this leads the main plot of the entire play. Theseus is the duke of Athens who gave an order to Hermia. The order was chosen by her own father who is Egeus. Which is to either chose death or marry Demetrius as her husband. Hermia begs and explain their love whom is Lysander but Egeus disapprove him. At the end we see that Theseus is a very romantic person and he decides to tell Egeus that he will not let Hermia be forced into what she doesn’t like, but yet Egeus still disapprove Lysander. I also had chosen this scene because it shows the reality of love and relationships that changes through experiences.