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A MidSummer Night's Dream …
A MidSummer Night's Dream
Brooklyn Ashley
A Comedy- a light hearted story NO ONE DIES
Shakespeare's Plays come in 5 acts
The acts are separated into Scenes
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Introduction, exposition
Characters
Theseus- (Duke of Athens) A Greek hero, half human and half god, son of Zeus and founded of Athens
Egeus- Hermia's Father wants her to marry Demetrius
Hermia- a young woman of Athens
Lysander- A young man of Athens; in love with Hermia
Hippolyta- A amazonian Queen, Female warriors, would sometimes cut off the left breast at childbirth to make it easier to shoot a bow and to fight
Demitrius- A young man of Athens; made love to Helena but is now in love with Hermia
Woods
Athenian
Things to look for while you're watching Shakespeare
The action on the stage/Actors faces and gestures
The poetry and the images contained there
What the characters are actually saying...
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Play Summary
Act I
Theseus and Hippolyta are getting married in 4 days.
Egeus is pissed at Hermia and Lysander for being in love. Edges wants her to marry Demitruis
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 a son. She lives 7 leagues from Athens and they can run away to there.
Helena learns of their plans and intends to tell Demetrius who btw flirted with Helena to begin with and "won her soul"
Scene 2
Scene 1
A group of blue-collar Athenian workmen meet to discuss putting on a play of Pyramus and Thisby (Romeo and Juliet) in celebration of the Duke's wedding.
Nick Bottom is a blowhard who bullies his friends, talks too much, and wants to do everything himself.
They assign parts and decide to meet in the woods so that they can practice in private.
Act II (The woods outside of Athens)
Puck is the trickster, a Loki figure who doesn't mean any harm but causes trouble
Titania and Oberon have been broken up and seeing other people for over a year and she has adopted a boy and he wants the boy.----(Oberon is controlling)
Scene 1
Helena and Demetrius show up and he's looking for Lysander 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.
Scene 2
Antithesis/Opposites
Winter vs Summer
Cold vs Hot
Images by Act
Yield or give up
Moon
Dote