A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nikko Abanilla for Lysander
A young man of Athens, 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 into the forest, Lysander becomes the victim of misapplied magic and wakes up in love with Helena.
Voice inspiration: https://youtu.be/tAt6J4QZjQA
- english
"You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him."
"A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia. I have a widow aunt, a dowager of great revenue, and she hath no child: from Athens is her house remote seven leagues; and she respects me as her only son. There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee; and to that place the sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then, steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night; and in the wood, a league without the town, where I did meet thee once with Helena, to do observance to a morn of May, there will I stay for thee."
"Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood; and to speak troth, I have forgot our way: we'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good, and tarry for the comfort of the day."
