A Midsummer Night's Dream Important Characters

Oberon - King of the fairies seeks revenge on his wife, Titania using a love-potion flower

Titania - Queen of the fairies who steals a young boy and has a potion-induced love for Nick Bottom

Puck - AKA Robin Goodfellow is Oberon's assistant who is responsible for many of the complications that propel the other plots

Lysander - A young man of Athens who loves Hermia and plans to run away with her becomes the victim of misapplied magic and wakes up briefly in love with Helena

Demetrius - A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia but ultimately in love with Helena with some help from the love potion

Hermia - A young woman of Athens and Egeus's daughter, Hermia is in love with Lysander and is friends with Helena

Helena - A young woman of Athens who loves Demetrius

Egeus - Hermia's father, who brings a complaint against his daughter to Theseus by giving Demetrius permission to marry Hermia, but Hermia wants to marry Lysander

Theseus - The Duke of Athens, engaged to Hippolyta

Hippolyta - The fiancé of Theseus

Nick Bottom - The overzealous actor chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen's play who gets the head of donkey and has Titania fall in love with him

Peter Quince - The director of the play, Quince also reads the Prologue.

Francis Flute - The actor playing Thisbe in the craftsmen's play

Robin Starveling - The actor playing Thisbe's mother in the craftsmen's who also ends up playing the part of Moonshine.

Tom Snout - The actor playing Pyramus's father in the play who also portrays the Wall

Snug - The actor who plays the lion in the craftsmen's play

Philostrate - Theseus's assistant who organizes the entertainment for the duke's marriage celebration.