A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Drama Terms/Skills Monologue Dialogue Aside Soliloquy Malapropisms Stage Directions

Shakespearean Lingo Blank verse Prose Iambic Pentameter

Quote “The course of true love /Never did run smooth.” Lysander

Quote “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” Puck

Types of Love: Define Romantic Love Platonic Love Unrequited Love Blind Love Love at First Sight Unconditional Love

Background This play was written and performed around 1595-96 for a royal wedding. It is a romantic comedy.

Comedy There is an initial threat to order. A series of mishaps and misadventures follow.

Comedy cont… There is a breakthrough in understanding by the players. There is a return to the natural order.

Theme What is the true nature of love? Is love constant and unchanging, or changeable and fickle?

Setting Athens, Greece Palace of Theseus Woods outside of Athens

Circular Plot Structure Act I Palace Act II Woods Act III Woods Act IV Woods Act V Palace

Characters: Plot Strands Theseus and Hippolyta Four young lovers Rude Mechanicals Fairies

Fairies

Humans-Lovers & Mechanicals

Symbols/Motif Moon: night/ confusion Dreams/Sleep: Illusion, fickle nature of love

Act I Exposition Theseus & Hippolyta’s dialogue-motif pg 1,2 PLOT: Egeus’ complaint pg 2 Theseus’ decree pg 3 Demetrius’ characterization pg 5 Hermia Demetrius Lysander

Act I Exposition cont… PLOT: Love’s obstacles-pg 6 Lovers’ plan-pg 7 Plot Complication-pg 8 Paradox of love-pg 9 Helena’s Soliloquy-pg 10

Helena’s Soliloquy Characterize Helena from the speech pg 10. What type of love is she describing? Identify the metaphor. Explain her plan. How will this create a complication?

Act I, sc ii pgs 11-15 Rude Mechanicals’ Play: elements of humor/irony/ paradox Characterize Bottom Identify Malapropisms pg 15

Act II-Rising Action

Fairy Land Fairy Land mirrors love problems in mortal world Conflict: Oberon vs Titania pg 16 Characterize Puck pg 16,17 Titania’s monologue-nature in turmoil/+3 examples/personification lines 100-105 Oberon’s revenge-pg 21,22-explain irony

Act II Rising Action Take Notes: 1. Explain Puck’s Big Blunder pg 29 2. Draw the Love Shift pg 30 3. Hermia’s Soliloquy-Cite examples for Foreshadowing and symbolism pg 32

Act III CLIMAX

Setting: Woods How does Puck become involved in the Rude Mechanicals’ play? Pg 35,36

Act III-Plot & Dialogue Identify Pun-pg 37 Dramatic Irony Explain Love Shift-pg 47 Shakespearean insults- pg 52-55 Foreshadowing-pg 61

ACT IV Falling Action

Falling Action Setting-woods Time-break of day Symbolism Oberon’s Motivation pg 64 Why does he release Titania from her spell? Setting-woods Time-break of day Symbolism

Act IV MOTIF & THEME Motif-Dreams Pg 65,70 What point about the nature of love is Shakespeare trying to make with the motif? Love is….

Demetrius’s Monologue Pg 68,69 Demetrius-Identify figurative language for Hermia & Helena Static or dynamic character? Which characters remain loyal to their loves? Which characters are fickle? Shakespeare’s point???

3 Weddings Pg 69 Theseus & Hippolyta Lysander & Hermia Demetrius & Helena

Bottom’s Soliloquy pg 70 Identify dream motif Is this speech prose, blank verse, or iambic pentameter? Explain.

ENCHANTED Released from Love-in-Idleness: Titania Bottom Lysander

ACT V Denouement “The lunatic, the lover, and poet Are of imagination all compact” (Shakespeare 73).

Act V Play-with in-a-Play Humorous Elements: Talking Wall Apologetic Lion Audience Talks Back Malapropisms Pg 80,83,84,85

Speeches Theseus’s Monologue Pg 75 Prose? Or Blank Verse? Identify Paradox Puck’s Blessing Pg 89,90 Irony Motif Rhyme Scheme

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