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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Myth #1: Ballet is boring. Here is the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia. Demetrius loves Hermia. Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia's dad, Egeus, wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander flee. Oberon, who is fighting with Titania for a child, orders Puck to use a magic flower to make Demetrius love Helena...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: Ballet for Beginners: The Shocking Truth (It Can Be Fun) | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...with most of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play about romance gone awry. The young woman, Hermia, is in love with Lysander. But her father Egeus has another husband in mind for her, Demetrius. Meanwhile, another woman, Helena, is passionately in love with Demetrius, who once returned her love but now repudiates...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: A Mid-afternoon Dream at Adams | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

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