A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jaden Quinn for Theseus
The heroic Duke of Athens, engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order throughout the play. He appears only at the beginning and end of the story, removed from the dreamlike events of the forest.
- english
- male adult
- english (british)
- audiobook
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four happy days bring in another moon. But oh, methinks how slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, like to a stepdame or a dowager long withering out a young man's revenue.
What say you, fair Hermia? Be advised, fair maid: to you your father should be as a god, one that composed your beauties, yea, and one to whom you are but as a form in wax, by him imprinted and within his power to leave the figure or disfigure it.
"Merry" and "tragical"? "Tedious" and "brief"? That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow. How shall we find the concord of this discord?
