Main Characters Duke Theseus The Athenian duke has recently defeated the Amazonian Queen Hippolyta in battle, and plans to marry her four days after the opening of the play. ... The character of Theseus appears in Greek myth (he was a friend of Hercules and a giant-killer), but Shakespeare more likely got the idea 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). ...

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• Grade Level: High School