A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 1/Act 2

Puck Robin Goodfellow
Theseus engaged to Hippolyta
Hippolyta Queen of Athens
Philostrate sent from Theseus to get merry young people to attend wedding (put all sadness in funerals)
Egeus father of Hermia
Lysander Hermia’s love
Hermia daughter of Egeus
Demetrius Helena’s love
Theseus Duke of Athens
Theseus getting married soon to Hippolyta
Theseus believes Lysander & Demetrius are worthy, but Lysander lacks Egeus’s approval to marry Hermia
Hippolyta getting married soon to Theseus
Hippolyta engaged to Theseus
Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius
Egeus believes that if Hermia doesn’t marry Demetrius, then she can be killed (by Athenian Law)
Egeus God to Hermia based on Theseus
Egeus gave Hermia her beauty based on Theseus
Lysander has given Hermia poems, love tokens, songs, serenades, bracelets made from his hair, rings, ribbons, baubles, knick-knacks, presents, posies, & candies
Lysander worthy gentleman in Hermia’s POV
Hermia Lysander’s love
Hermia Demetrius’s love
Hermia wants her father to see things her way
Demetrius worthy gentleman in Egeus’s POV
Theseus wants Hermia to see things her father’s way
Hermia shows courage in telling Theseus her POV about refusing to marry Demetrius
Hermia if she refuses to marry Demetrius, she’ll become a nun, be killed, or to never have any contact w/ any man
Hermia willing to die and surrender her virginity to be w/ Lysander
Lysander wants Demetrius to marry Egeus
Lysander thinks his prospects are better than Demetrius’s
Demetrius won Helena’s heart
Theseus tells advice to Egeus & Demetrius
Theseus gives tasks to Demetrius & Egeus about the wedding
Lysander says true love never runs smooth
Lysander has a widowed aunt
Aunt elder lady & childless
Aunt wealthy; looks at Lysander as her only son
Aunt house 20m from Athens
Aunt’s House Athenian laws doesn’t have to be followed there
Woods 3m outside town
Woods where Lysander met Hermia with Helena in the morning in May
Helena describes Hermia as a magnet towards Demetrius
Helena wants to know how Hermia makes Demetrius love her
Hermia running away w/ Lysander
Lysander wishes Helena luck for Demetrius
Helena thinks she’s just as good as Hermia
Love functions through the mind
Love like a child, b/c it’s always misled in making a choice
Demetrius swore an oath to Helena before he met Hermia
Helena tells Demetrius of Lysander’s plans
Peter Quince carpenter
Snug joiner
Nick Bottom weaver
Francis Flute bellows-mender
Snout tinker
Robin Starveling tailor
Peter Quince reads the cast members’ list for Pyramus & Thisbe
Nick Bottom plays Pyramus
Francis Flute plays Thisbe