1. A Midsummer Night’s Dreamby
William Shakespeare

3. Drama Terms/Skills Monologue Dialogue Aside Soliloquy Malapropisms
Stage Directions

4. Shakespearean Lingo
Blank verse
Prose
Iambic Pentameter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Setting
Athens, Greece
Palace of Theseus
Woods outside of Athens

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

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

15. Fairies

16. Humans-Lovers & Mechanicals

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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?

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

22. Act II-Rising Action

23. 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
Oberon’s revenge-pg 21,22-explain irony

24. 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

25. Act III CLIMAX

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

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

28. ACT IV Falling Action

29. 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

30. 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….

31. 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???

32. 3 Weddings Pg 69 Theseus & Hippolyta Lysander & Hermia
Demetrius & Helena

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

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

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

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

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

38. Parody/Video Selena Gomez in MSND
Thank you, Tyler F. & Julia S.
& Victoria H!