One of Shakespeares most frequently performed plays and regarded as maybe his best comedy A Midsummer Nights Dream is the story of the events surrounding the wedding of Theseus Duke and Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta. At the outset of the play we find Hermia who is in love with Lysander but is betrothed by her fathers arrangement to Demetrius. Meanwhile Helena laments her unrequited love of Demetrius. Several parallel and interconnecting plot lines complicate the narrative. One of whic