... for his character from Chaucer's Knight's Tale, which refers to Theseus and Hippolyta in the larger context of the story of Palamon and Arcite, two men in love with the same woman (a plot that resembles aspects of this play). Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons Theseus' betrothed at the beginning of the play is his former enemy in war. Strangely, she does not seem to resent her vanquisher, but rather seems just ... and his men become something more than the butt of the play's jokes? Did You Know? In 1660, the famous diary-keeper Samuel Pepys saw a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a...

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