Lysander — A Midsummer Night's Dream Character Profile

About Lysander

Young man in love with Hermia who flees to the forest to elope, is mistakenly enchanted by Puck to love Helena, and is later restored to his true feelings to marry Hermia.

Character Facts

Played by

Dick Powell

Appears in

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Lysander — Romantic Lovers — Hermia (Olivia de Havilland)

  Mutual romantic partners seeking to marry against paternal authority.

• Lysander — Power Ruler And Subject — Theseus (Ian Hunter)

  Ducal authority legitimizing the lovers' union.

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More characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Theseus (Ian Hunter)
• Hippolyta (Verree Teasdale)
• Philostrate (Hobart Cavanaugh)
• Hermia (Olivia de Havilland)
• Demetrius (Ross Alexander)
• Bottom (James Cagney)
• Helena (Jean Muir)
• Snug (Dewey Robinson)
• Egeus (Grant Mitchell)
• Quince (Frank McHugh)
• Flute (Joe E. Brown)
• Pease-Blossom (Katherine Frey)