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A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare (Athens: Mechanicals…

- - - - Theseus and Hippolyta are getting married in four days
      - Egeus is pissed at Hermia and Lysander for being in love. Egues wants her to marry Demitrius
      - Theseus gives Hermia 3 choices: a. Death, b. marry Demitrius, c. Become a nun
      - Lysander's aunt has a bunch of money and thinks of him as her only son. She lives 7 leagues from Athens and they can run away to there.
      - Helena learns of their plans and intends to tell Demitrius who btw flirted with her to begin with and "won her soul"
    - - They assign parts and decide to meet in the woods so that they can practice in private.
      - Nick Bottom is a blowhard who bullies his friends, talks too much, and wants to do everything himself
      - A group of blue-collar Atheninan workmen meet to discuss putting on a play of Pyramus and Thisby (Romeo/Juliet) in celebration of the Duke's wedding
  - - - Titania and Oberon have been broken up and seeing other people for over a year and he's adopted a boy and he wants the boy
      - Puck - is the trickster, a Loki figure who doesn't mean any harm but causes trouble
      - Helena and Demetrius show up and he's looking for Lysnader and Hermia--Helena is begging him to love her
      - Helena tells Demetrius he can beat her like a dog, but Demetrius just wants her to leave him alone
      - Oberon feels sorry for Helena and vows to change Demetrius' feelings for her
      - Oberon tells Puck to fetch a flower that when squeezed on sleeping eyelids will make that person fall in love with the next live creature that it sees.
      - Oberon intends to use this flower on Titania to get her back for her disobedience to him and to get Puck to use the flower on Demetrius (an Athenian lad) to get him to love Helena
    - - Fairies sing Titania to sleep every night
      - Puck mistakes Lysander and Hermia for Helena and Demetrius
      - Lysander sees Helena first and falls in love with her
      - Lysander leaves Hermia in pursuit of Helena
      - Oberon puts the flowers juice on Titania's eyelids
  - - - The mechanicals all meet to rehearse the play they discuss how to bring moonshine into the chamber and how to present a "wall"
      - Puck finds them and turns Bottom into a donkey the other guys run away in fear
      - Titania wakes up and falls in love with Bottom and refuses to let him leave the woods (hostage) but promises to pay him with fairy jewels and treats
    - - Oberon and puck discuss what has happened to Titania
      - Demetrius and Hermia enter and Hermia is wondering what happened to Lysander (it is now clear that Puck erred and magic juiced the wrong Athenian)
      - Demetrius falls asleep after Hermia leaves. Oberon instructs Puck to find Helena and Oberon charm Demetrius' eyes with the flower.
      - Lysander and Hermia show up, Demetrius wakes up and sees Helena and falls in love.
      - Helena thinks she's being pranked and the guys aree getting ready to fight and then the girls fight too.
      - Puck causes fog and uses hus 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 fall asleep near each other.
      - Puck undoes the magic on Lysanders eyes