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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dramatis Personaethe characters or actors in a play, movie, etc.
Theseus, Duke of AthensEgeus, father to HermiaLysander, Demetrius, in love with HermiaPhilostrate, master of the revels to TheseusQuince, a carpenterSnug, a joinerBottom, a weaverFlute, a bellows-menderSnout, a tinkerStarveling, a tailorHippolyta, queen of the Amazons, bethrothed to TheseusHermia, daughter to Egeus, in love with LysanderHelena, in love with DemetriusOberon, king of the fairiesTitania, queen of the fairiesPuck, or Robin GoodfellowPeaseBlossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed, fairiesOther fairies attending their King and Queen; and attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta Scene: Athens, and a wood nearby
Slide2A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dramatis Personaethe characters or actors in a play, movie, etc.
Act INarrator (stage descriptions and directions; italicized)Theseus HippolytaPhilostrate EgeusHermia LysanderDemetrius HelenaBottom FluteSnout QuinceStarveling SnugReading part assignments for Act I
Slide3A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dramatis Personaethe characters or actors in a play, movie, etc.
Act IIReading part assignments for Act IINarrator PuckFairy 1 OberonTitania DemetriusHelena Fairy 2Lysander Hermia
Slide4A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dramatis Personaethe characters or actors in a play, movie, etc.
Act IIIReading part assignments for Act IIINarrator BottomQuince SnoutStarvelingSnugPuckTitaniaFairiesHermiaHelena OberonDemetrius LysanderCobweb Peasblossom Mustardseed
Slide5A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dramatis Personaethe characters or actors in a play, movie, etc.
Act IVReading part assignments for Act IVNarrator TitaniaBottom Peasblossom, Cobweb, MustardseedOberon PuckTheseus HippolytaEgeus DemetriusLysander HermiaHelena QuinceStarvelingFluteBottom Snug
Slide6A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act- I~ Vocabulary Words
1. filched2. abjure3. persuasion4. revenue5. visage6. base7. perjured8. lamentable9. extempore10. discretion
Slide7A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act- II~ Vocabulary Words
11. perforce12. amorous13. undistinguishable14. Rheumatic15. chaplet16. Promontory 17. dulcet18. spurn19. clamorous20. flout
Slide8A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act- III~ Vocabulary Words
21. chink22. brake23. knavery24. enamored25. purge26. Kindred27. bower28. lamenting29. consecrated30. rebuke
Slide9A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act- IV~ Vocabulary Words
31. amiable32. fret33. loath34. entwist35. dotage36. upbraid37. conjunction38. enmity39. recount40. discourse
Slide10A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act- I: Guided/Study Questions
Act I1. What are Theseus and Hippolyta discussing at the play's start?2. How does Hippolyta come to be betrothed to Theseus?3. Why is Egeus disturbed?4. What will be Hermia's fate if she refuses to marry Demetrius?5. To what do Lysander and Hermia agree?6. What hope does Helena have by telling Demetrius of Lysander and Hermia's flight?7. Who are the characters in scene two, and what do they plan?
Slide11A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act-2 : Guided/Study Questions
Act II1. Why is Oberon angry with his queen?2. On what mission does Oberon send Puck?3. Upon overhearing Demetrius and Helena, what does Oberon command Puck to do?4. Upon whose eyes does Puck apply the potion?5. When he wakes up, who does Lysander see and love?6. What is Helena's reaction to Lysander's words of love?7. To where has Lysander disappeared when Hermia awakes?
Slide12A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act-3 : Guided/Study Questions
Act III1. Why does Bottom want a prologue written for the play?2. What has Puck done to Bottom?3. Identify the speaker: "Tie up my love's tongue, bring him silently."4. What news does Puck bring Oberon?5. Why does Oberon send Puck to fetch Helena?6. What is Helena's situation at this point in the play?7. What does Helena suppose of Hermia?8. What does Hermia think Helena has done?9. Why does Oberon send Puck to confuse the two young men?10. What remedy corrects the crossed-loved couples?
Slide13A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act-4 : Guided/Study Questions
Act IV1. Why does Titania give Oberon the child?2. How does Oberon find Titania and Bottom?3. Why does Oberon remove the spell he has cast over his queen?4. Finding the two couples asleep in the wood and learning of their more balanced love, whatorder does Theseus give?5. What news does Bottom bring his companions?