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A Midsummer Night's Dream
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" was written by William Shakespeare around 1590-1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, who are manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. In this category, there will be questions about the characters, their lines and themes of the play.
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The quote "O me! You juggler! You cankerblossom! You thief of love! What have you come by night And stoln my loves heart from him" is said by the character Hermia in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Which instrument classification is represented in Midsummer Night's Dream?
The instrument classification represented in "Midsummer Night's Dream" is the orchestral classification, with instruments such as strings (violin, cello), woodwinds (flute, clarinet), brass (trumpet, trombone), and percussion (timpani, cymbals) typically used in performances of the music composed for the play.
What does starveling play in a midsummer nights dream?
Robin Starveling plays the moon for Peter Quince's makeshift group of actors. He tells his audience that the lantern he holds is the moon and he is the man in the moon.
Quince's whole play--based on the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe--is slipshod and melodramatic, especially because Nicholas Bottom, who plays Pyramus, drags out his monologues and misspeaks several times. The whole play is comical, a fitting end to "A Midsummer Night's Dream," one of Shakespeare's comedies.
Why was the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream a good example of a Shakespearean comedy?
It's a great comedy--it just depends on how it is acted. There are a lot of language jokes and malpropisms and it's filled with sex jokes and other snide remarks.
Although in Shakespeare's time, a comedy didn't necessarily mean something that was funny (it meant it was light-hearted and had a happier ending), A Midsummer Night's Dream can actually be very funny.
What does the quote her dotage you begin to pity mean in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream mean?
What Oberon actually says is "her dotage I begin to pity". The WikiAnswers style book objection to the word "I" does not apply to quotations.
"Dotage" does not here mean senility. It comes from the verb "to dote" which means to be infatuated with, or to love to excess. You've probably heard the phrase "doting parents". The word means infatuation, and refers to the infatuation brought on by the love-drug love-in-idleness. At first Oberon thought it was funny, but now that he has his Indian boy, he is beginning to feel sorry for Titania.
In A Midsummer's Night Dream, Helena believes that Lysander's love for her and Hermia's lack of understanding is a ruse or prank. Seeing that Lysander's love for Hermia was a strong love previous to the nectar applied by Robin, it seems implausible that he would fall in love for her so strongly. In addition, Hermia's complete confusion of what is happening promotes the thought that Lysander's love of Hermia is false for if Lysander truly loved Helena, wouldn't Hermia have known?
