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Shakespeare MidSummer Night's dream- E. Webb 2017 (ex of play set up:,…
Shakespeare MidSummer Night's dream- E. Webb 2017
A comedy- lighthearted story
All of Shakespeare's plays come in 5 Acts
The acts are separated into scenes
ex of play set up
:
Act 1: Introduction, expostition
Act 2: rising action
Act 3: climax
Act 4: Falling action
Act 5: Conclusion, resolution, denounment
CHARACTERS
ATHENS HIGH BORN
Theseus--
DUKE OF ATHENS. A greek, half human and half God, son of Zeus and founder of Athens
Hippolyta--
an amazonian Queen, female warriors, would sometimes cut off the left breast at childbirth to make it easier to shoot a bow and fight
Egeus--
Hermia's father, wants his daughter to marry demitrius
Hermia--
a young woman of Athens
Helena--
a young woman, in love with demitrius
Lysander--
a young man of athens, in love with hermia
Demitrius--
a young man of athens, made love to helena but is now in love with hermia
FOLKS FROM WOODS
Titania:
the fairy queen married to Oberon, she has been sleeping around for about a year
Oberon:
the fairy king has also been sleeping around for about a year
Puck:
the trickster servant to Oberon (loki) Robin Goodfellow
<---- Fairies are Supernatural creatures
ATHENS: MECHANICALS
Tom Snout:
the tinker
Francis Flute:
the bellows mender
Nick Bottom:
A blue-collar worker from Athens who intends to put on a play for the Duke (Theseus) on his wedding day. (Also a weaver)
Snug:
the joiner
Robin Starveling:
the tailor
THINGS TO LOOK FOR WHEN WATCHING SHAKESPEARE
The action on stage and actors faces/gestures
The poetry and the images contained there
What the characters are actually saying
ANTITHESIS/OPPOSITES
hot&cold
winter&summer
mind and heart
old and young
Images by Act
Act 1
dote
The moon
yield or give up
rose
night
Act 2
flowers
moon
jealousy
act 3
Jokes/mockery
act 4
sleep
music
serventry
Play Summary
ACT 1
SCENE 1
(3)Theseus gives Hermia 3 choices. Death, Demetrius, or become a Nun.
(1)Hippolyta and Theseus are getting married in 4 days.
(2)Egeus is PISSED at Hermia & Lysander for being in love. Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius.
(4) Lysander's aunt has a bunch of money and thinks of him as her son. She leaves 7 leagues from Athens and they can run away there
(5) Helena learns of their plans and intends to tell Demetrius who btw flirted with Helena to begin within "won her soul"
Scene 2
3.) They assign parts and decide to meet in the woods so they can practice in private.
2.)Nick Bottom is a blowhard who bullies his friends, talks too much, & wants to do everything himself.
1.) A group of blue collar Athenian workmen meet to discuss putting on a play of Pyramus and Thisby (Romeo&Juliet) in celebration of the duke's wedding
ACT 2:
scene 1:
2.) Titania and Oberon have been broken up and seeing other people for over a year and she has adopted a boy and he wants it from her. --(Oberon is controlling)
4.) Helena tells Demetrius he can beat her like a dog but demetrius just wants her to leave him alone
1.) Puck is the trickster, a loki figure who doesn't mean any harm but causes trouble.
3.) Helena and Demetrius show up and he's looking for Hermia and Lysander-- Helena is begging him to love her
5.) Oberon feels sorry for Helena and vows to change Demetrius' feelings for her.
6.) Oberon tells puck to fetch a flower that when squeezed on sleeping eyelids, it will make that person fall in love wit the next living creature it sees
7.) Oberon intends to use this flower on Titania to get her back for disobeying him and to get Puck to use it on Demetrius to get him to love helena
Scene 2:
5.) When Lysander awoke he instantly fell in love with Hermia. He claimed he was going to kill demetrius because of the pain he's caused Helena. Helena thinks Lysander is mocking her so she storms away.
3.) Lysander tries to get it on with Hermia but she's not into it so they go to sleep separately. Puck comes in and wrongly puts the flower juice on Lysander's eyelids instead of Demetrius
2.) Oberon puts the flower juice on to Titania's eyelids. Hermia and Lysander come in just as he slips away. They decided to stop to rest.
4.) Demetrius and Helena storm in and Demetrius tells Helena to go away but she refuses. She was going to go after him until she saw lysander laying down on the ground. Afraid that he was dead, she checked on him.
1.)The fairies dance Titania to sleep and then leave her to rest. They go off to continue their work.
6.) Lysander leaves Hermia, claiming he never wants to see her again, and chased after Helena. Hermia wakes up from a bad dream about Lysander and finds that he had left her alone.
ACT 3
SCENE 1:
3.) Titania wakes up and falls in love with bottom. She refuses to let him leave the woods (hostage) but promise to mayhem with fairy jewels and treats.
2.) Puck finds them and turns Bottom into a donkey & the other guys run away in fear
1.) The mechanicals all meet to rehearse the play. They discuss how to bring moonshine into the chamber and how to present a "wall".
SCENE 2:
1.) Oberon and puck discuss what has happened to titania.
2.) Demetrius and Hermia enter and hermia is wondering what happened to lysander (it is now clear to puck that he made a mistake and magic juiced the wrong athenian)
3.) Demetrius falls asleep after Hermia leaves.Oberon instructs puck to find helena and oberon charms demetrius' eyes with the flower
4.) Lysander and Helena show up, Demetrius wakes up and sees Helena and falls in love. Helena thinks its all a big joke on her.
5.)The guys were going to fight and the girls fight too.
6.) Puck causes fog and uses his voice to confuse Lysander and Demetrius until they are tired and go to sleep. Then the fairies cause the girls to find the guys and they all fall asleep near each other.
7.) puck undoes the magic on lysander
ACT 4:
SCENE 1
2.) Titania and Bottom lay together and sleep
3.) Oberon started to pity titania. Titania gave him the Indian boy to get him to leave her alone.
1.) Bottom is using Titania for his privileges
4.) He decided to undo the spell and change bottom back. Titania and Oberon would remember the night as a dream.
5.) Before they changed bottom back, Oberon showed him to titania to tell her what he'd done
6.) Oberon and Titania danced together and rekindled their friendship.
7.) Thesues and Egeus found the 4 runaways in the woods and Egeus was angered about who they were sleeping next to. The 4 pleaded to be with the ones they loved and Theseus granted them permission to be together. They were to get married alongside Theseus in Hippolyta. Bottom woke and claimed it was all a dream,. He said he was going to write a song and call it Bottom's dream.
Scene 2
2.)Bottom wouldn't tell the guys what happened. so they made their way to the dinner to preform their play.
1.) The Mechanicals were worried about bottom because he is the lad of the play and he had been missing. They were stressing about it but then he came and soothed their minds.
Act 5:
scene 1
2.) thesues says that he does not believe the story, he says darkness and love have a way of exciting the imagination
3.) hippolyta thinks they couldn't have made such a story up and each say the same thing
1.) theseus speaks with hippolyta about the story that the athenian youths have told them concerning the magical romantic mix-ups of the previous night
5.) They all decide that they should watch the play
6.) the mechanicals preform the play
6.) puck apologizes to everyone and makes them think of what has happened