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    Who is Lysander and what Shakespearean work was he from?

    Question #77660. Asked by tutetute. (Mar 22 07 11:05 AM)


    adolan

    		Lysander was the commander of the Spartan fleet which was victorious against the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC. The following year, he took Athens itself, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end.

    Midsummer Night's Dream


    Mar 22 07, 11:23 AM
    angryllama

    		Lysander was a character in "A Midsummer's Night Dream". He is in love with Hermia but cannot marry her due to her father Egeus who wishes her to marry Demetrius. He ends up marrying her and Demetrius marries Hermia's friend, Helena.

    Mar 22 07, 11:24 AM
    skysmom65

    		Lysander is one of the iconic lovers in William Shakespeare's play : A Midsummer Night's Dream. A young man of Athens, Lysander is in love with Hermia. Lysander’s relationship with Hermia invokes the theme of love’s difficulty: he cannot marry her openly because Egeus, (her father), wishes her to wed Demetrius; when Lysander and Hermia run away to his aunt's house by a forest route, Lysander, and Demetrius also, becomes the victim of misapplied magic caused by Puck and wakes up in love with Helena.This later gets sorted out by use of magic. Lysander falls in love with Hermia again and marries her, and Demetrius continues to love Helena and marries her.Lysander tells Hermia that "the course of true love never did run smooth".
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    Mar 22 07, 12:33 PM

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