This can be gathered through discrepancies between the First Folio and earlier quarto versions of the play. In original performance A Midsummer Night's Dream, the actor for Egeus and Philostrate were probably one and the same. She follows her feelings and imagination regarding Lysander, rather than strictly adhering to her father's will (thus his preferential disposition towards Demetrius). Hermia embodies the opposition to the law and reason of her father. He goes so far as to say that if she disobeys, he as a father has a right to kill her, or to force her into a convent as a nun for life. Constantly refusing his daughter's plea to marry the man she loves, Lysander, he demands that she be forced to marry Demetrius. If Hermia refuses to wed Demetrius, she could be put to death, or cloistered in a nunnery for the rest of her life - both sentences supported by Athenian law.Įgeus plays a key part in illustrating the love play's theme of law versus love, and reason versus imagination.
Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius.Īppearing in Act I, Scene 1 and Act IV, Scene 1, Egeus is the father of Hermia, who disapproves of Hermia and Lysander's love, appealing to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. In original performances, the actor for his role probably played the part of Philostrate as well. He is an Athenian who tries to keep his daughter, Hermia, from marrying Lysander (the man she loves). Egeus / i ˈ dʒ iː ə s/ is a character in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the comedy by William Shakespeare.
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