Theseus is the Duke of Athens. Hippolyta is the woman he
is going to marry. They are going to be married quite soon (4 more days) and that is
what they are talking about when the play
starts.
Specifically, the two of them are talking about how
eager they are to get married. They are really impatient for the four days to pass so
that they can get married.
They only talk about this for a
very little while in the first scene of the play. Very soon, they are interrupted by
Egeus, who has come to have Theseus lay down the law to Egeus's daughter,
Hermia.
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