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William Spakespeare MidSummer Night's Dream Madison Surface 6th (The…
William Spakespeare MidSummer Night's Dream Madison Surface 6th
A Comedy- A light hearted story. NOBODY DIES
Shakespeare's Plays come in 5 acts
The acts are separated into scenes
Example: III,iii
Act IV
Falling Action
Act III
Climax
Point of no return
Act V
Conclusion / Resolution / Denounment
Act II
Rising Action
Act I
Introduction / Exposition
Characters
Athens: High Born
Theseus
Duke of the Athens. A greek hero, half humans 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 her to marry Demitrius.
Hermia
A young women from Athens
Lysander
A young man of Athens: in love with Hermia.
Helena
A young woman of Athens; in love with Demitrius
Demitrius
A young man of Athens; made love to Helena but is now in love with Helena.
Woods
Titania
The Fairy Queen married to Oberon, she has been sleeping around for a year.
Oberon
The Fairy King has also been sleeping around for the past year.
Puck
The trickster servant to Oberon (loki) Robin Goodfellow
Fairies are supernatural
The Greek Gods were more like human beings than Gods
Athens: Mechanicals
Nick Bottom
A blue-collar worker from Athens who intends to put on a play for the Dukes (Theseus) on his wedding day.
The weaver.
Francis Flute
The bellow mender..
Tom Snout
The tinker.
Robin Starveling
The taylor,
Snug
The joiner.
Things to look for while watching Shakespeare:
The action on the stage / actors (faces and gestures).
The poetry and the images contained there.
What the characters are actually saying.
Antithesis
Opposite.
Cold vs Hot
Winter vs Summer
Mind vs Heart
Old vs Young
Images by act.
Act 1
Yield or give up.
Dote
Moon.
Rose/Flower
Night
Act 2
Moon
Play Summary
Act 1
Scene 1
Theseus and Hippolyta are getting married in four days.
Edges is very mad at Hermia and Lysander for being in love. Egeus wants her to marry Demitirus.
Theseus gives Hermia three choice. A=death. B=Marry Demitrius. C=Become a nun.
Lysander's aunt has a lot of moneyed thinks of him as a son. She lives seven leagues from Athens and they can run away to there.
Helena learns of their plan and intends to tell Demitrius. Who btw flirted with Helena to begin with and "won her soul."
Scene 2
A group of blue-collar Athenians workmen meet to discuss putting on a play of Pyramus and Thisby (aka Romeo and Juliet) in celebration of the Duke's wedding.
Nick Bottom is a blowhard who bullies his friend, 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 2 (The woods outside of Athens.)
Scene 1
Puck-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 adopted a boy and he wants the boy, (Oberon is controlling.)
Helena and Demetrius show up and he's looking for Lysander and Hermia-Helena is begging him to love her.
4.Helena tells Demetrius he can beat her like a dog, but Demetruis 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 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 Demitruis (an Athens lad) to get him to love Helena.
Scene 2
Lysander and Hermia are in the woods.
Hermia is trying to sleep, and Lysander lays close to her and she tells him to move
Lysander and Helena leave together.
Puck puts a flower over Lysander's eyes. When he wakes up the first thing he sees he falls in love with.
Lysander wakes up, and falls in love with Helena.
Helena and Demitrius come through he woods. Demitrius tells her to leave him alone.
Helena spots Lysander, and goes to wake him up.
Hermia wakes up alone, and she can't find Lysander.
Act 3
Scene 1
The Mechanicals all meet to rehears the play. They discuss how to bring moonshine into the chamber, and how to present a "wall."
Puck finds them, and turns Nick Bottom into a donkey. The other guys run away in fear.
Titania wakes up and falls n love with Bottom and refuses to let him leave the woods (hostage) but promises to pay him with fairy jewels and treats.
Scene 2
Oberon and Puck discuss what has happened to Titania.
Demetrius and Hermia enter. Hermia is wondering what happened to Lysander. (It is now clear that Puck erred, and the magic juiced the wrong Athenian.)
Demetrius falls asleep after Hermia leaves. Oberon tells Puck to find Helena and Oberon charms Demetrius' eyes with the flower.
Lysander and Helena show up, Demetrius wakes up and sees Helena and falls in love.
Helena thinks she's being pranked and the guys are getting ready to fight and then the girls' fight, too.
Puck causes fog and used 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 together.
Puck undoes the magic on Lysander's eyes.
Act 4
Scene 1
Thesus, Hippolyta, and some other people find Lysander, Hermia Demetrius, and Helena sleeping in the woods.
Thesus and Hippolyta tell them they can each marry the one they desire.
Oberon undoes the magic of Titania.
Scene 2
Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, get married. Thesus and Hippolyta threw them the wedding
Bottom wakes up from the dream and finds the little crown.
Act 5
Scene 1
Hippolyita says they couldn't make a whole story up and each say the same thing.
Theseus says that he does not believe the story, adding that darkness and love have a way of exciting the imagination.
Theseus speaks with Hippolyta about the story that the Athenian youths have told them concerning the magical romantic mix-ups of the previous night
Scene 2
The mechanicals perform their play.
Decide they should watch a play.