Forbidden love can not be suppressed, Evidence of this is all throughout Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream. A Midsummer Night Dream was written around 1595 or 1596, which was right after Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy and also included a forbidden love story. Romeo and Juliet were alluded to in the craftsmen’s play “Pyramus and Thisby” in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Egeus, father of Hermia, believes that he controls the feelings or love of his daughter. stated as soon a the first scene “Be it so she will not here before your grace, Consent to marry with Demetrius, I beg the ancient privilege of Athens.” (Shakespeare 1. 1. 39-41) Egeus has the right to force her to die or marry Demetrius.
