| Titania, the queen of fairy’s, is enamoured with an | Ass/Donkey (Bottom) |
| “Nothing, good monsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb to scratch. I must to the barber’s, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face, and I am such a tender ass. If my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.” | Bottom to Mustardseed (Act 4 Scene 1) |
| “Truly a peek of provender. I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay hath no fellow.” | Bottom to Titania (Act 4 Scene 1) |
| Bottom would like someone to fetch him ________ to eat | hay |
| “Me thought I was enamoured of an ass.” | Titania to Oberon (Act 4 Scene 1) |
| “There lies your love” (looking at Bottom) | Oberon to Titania (Act 4 Scene 1) |
| “How came these things to pass? O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!” pt 2 | Titania to Oberon (Act 4 Scene 1) pt 2 |
| “Then, my queen, in silence sad, Trip we after the night’s shade. We, the globe can compass soon, Swifter than the wandering moon.” pt 2 | Oberon to Titania (Act 4 Scene 1) pt 2 |
| When Oberon takes the spell of Titania they _______ | dance. |
| Oberon wants Puck to | remove the spell from Bottom, to remove the ass’ head. |
| Oberon and Titania decide to | Go to the wedding ( Theseus and Hippolyta’s) |
| “”I know you two are rival enemies. How come this gentle concord in the world, that hatred is so far from jealousy, To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?” | Theseus to Lysander and Demetrius |
| “But speak Egeus. Is not this the day That Hermia should give her answer of choice?” | Theseus to Egeus (Act 4 Scene 1) |
| Theseus, Hippolyta and Egeus are _________ when they find the lovers asleep. | hunting in the woods |
| “Enough, enough my lord. You have enough! I beg the law, the law upon his head!” | Egeus to Theseus (Act 4 Scene 1) |
| “My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth, Of this their purpose hither, to this wood, And I in fury hither follow them, Fair Helena, in fancy following me. But my good lord, I wot not by what power, – But by some power power it is, – my love to Hermia, Melted as the snow, seems to me now As the remembrance of an idle gaud Which in my childhood I did dote upon; And all the faith, the virtue of my heart, the object and the pleasure of mine eye, Is only Helena. To her my lord, Was I betrothed ere I saw Hermia. But like sickness, did I loathe this food. But, as in health, come to my natural taste, Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, And will for evermore be true to it” Long version | Demetrius to Egeus (Act 4 Scene 1) Professing love for Helena, long version |
| “Is only Helena. To her my lord, Was I betrothed ere I saw Hermia. But like sickness, did I loathe this food. But, as in health, come to my natural taste, Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, And will for evermore be true to it” short version | Demetrius to Egeus (Act 4 Scene 1) short version |
| “These things seem small and undistinguishable, Like far-off mountains turned into clouds.” | Demetrius to other lovers/ aloud to himself (Act 4 Scene 1) |
| “Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was, – there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, – and methought I had, – but man is a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had.” pt 1 | Bottom to audience/ himself (Act 4 Scene 1) pt 1 |
| Theseus has a change of heart and decides to | change his mind and let the “lovers” marry each other |
| “I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called “Bottom’s Dream”, because it hath no Bottom; and I will sing the it in the latter end of the play, before the Duke.” pt 2 | Bottom to audience/ himself (Act 4 Scene 1) pt 2 |
| “It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus be he.” | Quince to the other Rude Mechanicals (besides bottom) ( Act 4 Scene 2) |
| “Masters, I am to discourse wonders. But ask me not what> For if I tell you, I am no true Athenian.” | Bottom to the other Rude Mechanicals (Act 4 Scene 2) |
| All the lovers are following Theseus to go get married at | the temple |
| When Quince says ” Yea, and the best person too, and he is a very paramour, for a sweet voice.” paramour is an example of malapropism. What did he mean to say? | Paragon |
| “‘Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of.” | Hippolyta to Theseus (Act 5 Scene 1) |
| “More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of joy. Or in the night imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed to bear?” long version | Theseus to Hippolyta (Act 5 Scene 1) long version |
| “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives airy nothing A local habitation and a name. ” short version | Theseus to Hippolyta (Act 5 Scene 1) short version |
| “To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bed-time? Where is our usual manager of mirth? What revels are in hand? Is there no play, To ease the anguish of torturing our?” pt 1 | Theseus to Philostrate/ Lysander/ Lovers (Act 5 Scene 1) pt 1 |
| “”A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus And his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth.” Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief? That is hot ice, and wondrous strange snow. How shall we find the concord of this discord?” pt 2 | Theseus to Philostrate (Act 5 Scene 1) pt 2 |
| “I love not to see wretchedness o’er charged, And duty in his service perishing” | Hippolyta to Theseus (Act 5 Scene 1) |
| Theseus wants to see the play Pyramus and Thisbe because he thinks he will be ____________ | amused. |
| “If we offend, it is with our good will. That you should think, we come not to offend, But with good will. To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. Consider then, we come but in despite. We do not come, as minding to content you, Our true intent is. All for your delight, we are not here. That you should here repent you, The actors are at hand; and by their show, You shall know all, that you are like to be know,” | Prologue (Quince) to audience of play (Theuseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate) |
| When Quince gives the prologue he ____________ the whole play. | spoils |
| “And such a wall, as I would have you think, That had in it a crannied hole or chink, Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe, Did whisper often, very secretly. | Wall/Snout to audience (Act 5 Scene 1) |
| “If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.” pt 2 | Theseus to Hippolyta (Act 5 Scene 1) pt 2 |
| Bottom plays | Pyramus |
| Flute plays | Thisbe |
| Snout plays | Wall |
| Starveling plays | Moonshine |
| Snug plays | Lion |
| “With the help of a surgeon, he might yet recover, and prove an ass” | Theseus to Lysander, Demetrius and Hippolyta? |
| Bottom breaks the _________ ________ by speaking to the audience | fourth wall |
| “Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house. I am sent, with broom before, To sweep the dust, behind the door.” pt 3 | Puck to audience/ himself (Act 5 Scene 1) pt 3 |
| “Now until the break of day, Through this house, each fairy stray. To the best bride-bed will we, Which by us shall blessed be;” | Oberon to Titania and their trains. (Act 5 Scene 1) |
| “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear.” | Puck to audience (Act 5 Scene 1) |
| “So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends And Robin shall restore amends.” pt 2 | Puck to audience (Act 5 Scene 1) pt 2 |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 4&5 Important Quotes and Content
August 2, 2019