Also known as Robin Goodfellow | Puck |
Egeus’s Daughter, in love with Lysander | Hermia |
Once betrothed to Demetrius | Hermia |
The Duke of Athens | Theseus |
Loved Helena, then Hermia, then Helena again | Demetrius |
King of the fairies | Oberon |
Egeus’ choice to marry Hermia | Demetrius |
Loved by Hermia | Lysander |
Overconfident weaver, who plays Pyramus | Bottom |
A joiner who plays the part of a Lion | Snug |
Fell in love with an ass | Titania |
A carpenter who directs “Pyramus and Thisbe” | Peter Quince |
Engaged to Theseus | Hippolyta |
A mischievous fairy who loves “preposterous things best” | Puck |
Was the first to be given the love juice | Titania |
Remained under the love juice’s effect until the end of the play | Demetrius |
Mistook Lysander for Demetrius | Puck |
Disobeyed her father and planned to elope | Hermia |
Tall light-complexioned female | Helena |
Short dark-complexioned female | Hermia |
Wants his wife’s Indian changeling boy to be his knight | Oberon |
Thinks Demetrius and Lysander mock her | Helena |
Betrayed her friend hoping to win Demetrius’ favour | Helena |
Unwillingly plays part of Thisbe | Flute |
The total number of plays Shakespeare wrote | 37 |
The fraction of Shakespeare’s plays that were comedies | one-third |
The year Shakespeare was born | 1564 |
The year Shakespeare died | 1616 |
A list of characters organized by families or by loyalty affiliations | dramatis personae |
The play takes it’s title from this day | June 23rd |
The play occurs around this date | May Day |
The play was written as early as | 1592 |
The number of lines in the play | 2150 |
A book that is produced by folding a large sheet into four and then binding the sheets to produce a book | Quarto |
Poetic form Shakespeare uses | Blank verse |
The rhythm pattern found in Shakespeare’s plays | iambic pentameter |
A book produced by folding large printed sheets in half and then binding the sheets | folio |
These are used to cue actors and readers where to pause and what words to emphasize | colons/commas |
The number of lines in the play that are written in prose | 400 |
The play within the play performed at a wedding | Pyramus and Thisbe |
The poem takes place at these scenes | Athens and in nearby woods |
The term for a substitution of a “grotesque fairy offspring” for a “human child” | changeling |
Shakespeare used a number of these in creating the play | sources |
The place where Shakespeare was born | Stratford |
A carpenter, speaks the prologue | Peter Quince |
Master of the revels to Theseus | Philostrate |
In love with Hermia, but not loved by her | Demetrius |
King of the fairies | Oberon |
A joiner, plays Lion | Snug |
Duke of Athens, betrothed to Hippolyta | Theseus |
A tinker, plays Wall | Tom Snout |
In love with Demetrius, but not loved by him | Helena |
Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus | Hippolyta |
A tailor, plays Moonshine | Robin Starveling |
Queen of the fairies | Titania |
Fairies attending Titania | Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed |
A bellows-mender, plays Thisbe | Flute |
A weaver, plays Pyramus | Bottom |
Robin Goodfellow and servant to Oberon | Puck |
In love with and loved by Hermia | Lysander |
The actors leave the stage | exeunt |
The actors remain | manent |
All | Omnes |
A speech or scene played in the balcony above the stage level or from higher up in the loft | above, aloft |
Horns are sounding offstage | winding of horns |
The actor leaves the stage | exit |
Words spoken off-stage in what the audience would assume is an unseen room, corridor or the outdoors | within |
A loud shout, signal call to arms. | alarum |
A trumpet call announcing the entrance of a royal procession | sennet |
A fanfare of trumpets, usually announcing the entrance of royalty | flourish |
Spoken directly to the audience or to a specified character and not heard by the others on the stage. | aside |
The actors enter from, or exit in, different directions | severally |
The actor is wounded and falls | Falls |
A speech or scene played from below the surface of the stage using a trap door | Below, beneath |
Musicians enter playing wind instruments | hautboys |
A speech given by a character when she/he is talking to him/herself. | soliloquy |
A poem written in iambic pentameter but having no rhyme | blank verse |
a form of extended metaphor | Allegory |
occurs when the reader or audience is aware of something that the character doesn’t know | dramatic irony |
occurs when the outcome of an event is the opposite of what is expected or when the real situation is the opposite of what it seems to be | situational irony |
occurs when something is said by the opposite of what is true or is meant | verbal irony |
a word that is used incorrectly by confusing it with a similar sounding word | malapropism |
comic characters used for humour or comic relief | fool/clown |
ad lib or improvise | extempore |
a person who weaves fabric | weaver |
a person who reapers an object of device with sides that allow it to expand and contract | bellows-mender |
a person who makes clothes to fit individual costumers | tailor |
a mender of pots, kettles, etc. | tinker |
a person who constructs the wooden components of a building | joiner |
evil creatures that were to be feared | fairies |
loud, confused noise | clamorous |
regret | repent |
near | nigh |
1. Preparation and celebration of Theseus and Hippolyta | plot |
2. Story of the four lovers | plot |
3. The comedy involving the rude mechanics | plot |
4. The play within the play | plot |
5. The fairyland sequences | plot |
Play that ends happily, usually with a marriage | Comedy |
Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans | source for Theseus |
“The Knight’s Tale” from the Canterbury Tales | source for Theseus |
Ovid’s Metamorphoses | source for Pyramus and Thisbe |
John a Kent and John a Cumber | source for fairies |
Discoverie of Withcraft | source for Puck |
number of plays in quarto | 18 |
Quince | carpenter |
Bottom | weaver |
Flute | bellows-mender |
Snug | joiner |
Tom Snout | tinker |
Robin Starveling | tailor |
What is the name of a comic character? | Fool |
Of whom is Hippolyta the queen? | The Amazons |
What does “pentameter” mean? | Five feet |
Who is the director of the Mechanicals’ play? | Peter Quince |
Where are Hermia and Lysander attempting to flee? | Lysander’s aunt |
When was shakespeare born? | April 23rd 1564 |
How many sources did Shakespeare use? | 5 |
What is the name of the Mechanicals’ play? | The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe |
Who plays the part of a woman in the play? | Flute |
What does the word “con” mean? | memorize the lines |
Hermia’s punishment for refusing to marry Demetrius is death or what? | Banishment to a nunnery |
Why does Egeus want Hermia to marry Demetrius? | because he is a worthy gentleman |
How can the law of Athens best be explained? | a disobedient child can be put to death |
In Act I Scene I, who does Egeus complain to Theseus about? | Hermia |
What are the five plots of the play? | 1. The story of the four lovers 2. The fairyland sequences3. The comedy involving the rude mechanicals 4. The play within the play5. The planning of the wedding |
What heading does “hautboys” and “omnes” belong under? | People |
Why do Lysander and Hermia meet in the woods? | To sneak away to be married |
Who thinks they can play any part in the play? | Bottom |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 16, 2019