Title: A midsummer
night Dream
Author:
William Shakespeare
Date: composition: 1593-1594
Publication: 1600
Period/Style/Genre: Period:
XVI century Elizabeth Genre: Comedy
Number of Characters:
12
Characters
Setting: The woods
near Athens, Grecce
Robin Starveling:
- Tailor chosen to play Thisbe mother
Francis Flute:
- Play a young girl in love
- Man
Peter Quince:
- Carpenter
- Plays the Prologue
Nick Bottom:
- Overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus
- Makes silly mistakes
- Man
Hippolyta:
- Queen of the Amazons
- Engaged to Theseus
Theseus:
- Duke of Athens
- Engaged to Hippolyta
Egeus:
- Hermias Father
- Gave permission to Hermian to marry Demetrius
Helena:
- Young Woman of Athens
- In Love with Demetrius
Hermia:
- Egeus's daughter
- Women of Athens
- In love with Lysander
Demetrius:
- Young Man
- In live with Helena
Lysander:
- Young Man
- From Athens
- In love with Hermia
Titania:
- Queen of Fairies
- Female
Oberon:
- King of fairies
- Male
Puck:
- Didn't have age as h was a fairy
- Male
- Fairy
Summary
Scene 1
Titania asks if Bottom want some nuts, but he replies that he would prefer a handful of dried peas and that he has a strange hungr for hay; all this happens while he lies in her lap with his ass head. Oberon and puck talk about the love charming spelled on Titania, and after that he proposes her to undo the magic if she yields the Indian child. Oberon removed the spell and asked for music to dance with the queen. Finally Puck also removes the spell of the ass head from Bottom.
Scene 2
Craftsmen are worried about his friend Bottom because he hasn't appeared, moreover with a beast in the forest. Starveling thinks that maybe the fairies have done something to him. Snug enters tellign everyone that Theseus married. Just when they were leaving fot the play, Botoom appears and asks why are all so sad, going with them to perform the play.
Special Notes
A special characteristic of the play is the appeareance of many fairy characters, doting the story with misticism and making it unique. The performance of the play must be done with a lot of ornaments and costumes.
Another notable effect in this act is the useof background music proposed by fairies.
Finally, the participation of slept characters mixes reality with dream creating a superreal enviorment.
Personal Notes and Reactions
The story is very good, it happens in different settings and with uncommon characters as fairies. The difficulty at the moment of reading is to understand what characters want to say or what is ocurring because of the poetic use of english; also because of the weird actions of the fairies the story tends to confuse.
Scene 1
Titania asks if Bottom want some nuts, but he replies that he would prefer a handful of dried peas and that he has a strange hungr for hay; all this happens while he lies in her lap with his ass head. Oberon and puck talk about the love charming spelled on Titania, and after that he proposes her to undo the magic if she yields the Indian child. Oberon removed the spell and asked for music to dance with the queen. Finally Puck also removes the spell of the ass head from Bottom.
Scene 2
Craftsmen are worried about his friend Bottom because he hasn't appeared, moreover with a beast in the forest. Starveling thinks that maybe the fairies have done something to him. Snug enters tellign everyone that Theseus married. Just when they were leaving fot the play, Botoom appears and asks why are all so sad, going with them to perform the play.
Special Notes
A special characteristic of the play is the appeareance of many fairy characters, doting the story with misticism and making it unique. The performance of the play must be done with a lot of ornaments and costumes.
Another notable effect in this act is the useof background music proposed by fairies.
Finally, the participation of slept characters mixes reality with dream creating a superreal enviorment.
Personal Notes and Reactions
The story is very good, it happens in different settings and with uncommon characters as fairies. The difficulty at the moment of reading is to understand what characters want to say or what is ocurring because of the poetic use of english; also because of the weird actions of the fairies the story tends to confuse.
