Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream)(Redirected from Lysander (Shakespeare))
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|A Midsummer Night's Dream character|
Hermia and Lysander by John Simmons (1870)
|Created by||William Shakespeare|
A handsome young man of Athens, Lysander is in love with Egeus's daughter Hermia. Unfortunately, Egeus does not approve of Lysander and would prefer his daughter to marry a man called Demetrius. Meanwhile, Hermia's friend Helena has fallen in love with Demetrius. When Hermia is forced to choose between dying, never seeing a man again or marrying Demetrius, she and Lysander run away into the forest. After Lysander is put under Puck's spell, being mistaken for Demetrius he falls in love with Helena. Eventually, the spell is reversed and Lysander marries Hermia.