How is the theme of violence portrayed in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?

Despite being on of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream (AMND) is a play set in the fallout of the Athenian-Amazonian war, and the farces that drive the comedic plots constantly threaten to tip into violence. As was expected of comedies of the time, the various tensions are resolved in marriage. However, throughout the play, violence and love are portrayed as being far from mutually exclusive. This constant overhanging threat of violence exposes the vulnerabilities characters experience due to their gender and their social class, alongside suggesting that even those in power are not exempt from the threats of a social order so entwined with sanctioned violence. Shakespeare introduces the intimacy between love and violence at the beginning of the the first scene. As the play was written at a time when interest in Classical mythology had been renewed, audience members, especially members of the educated aristocracy, would have been familiar with the legends of Theseus and Hippolyta. Thus the first wedding we are set up to anticipate is one that is the by-product of abduction, conquest, and rape. That Shakespeare is working within the existing framework of the popular myth is made clear by Theseus' declaration that he:"Won [Hippolyta's] love doing [her] injuries,"This sets up the ongoing theme that love and violence are not only frequent bedfellows in AMND, but that the threat of violence may be expected to win the love of another. I will explore how this is mirrored and critiqued throughout the play.