A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hermia asks for Theseus's pardon for refusing to marry Demetrius as her father wishes, and for running away with Lysander instead. She has disobeyed the law of Athens by defying her father's authority and rejecting Demetrius as her suitor.

The artisans, including Bottom and his companions, perform for the Duke in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as a form of entertainment during Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding celebrations. Their play, "Pyramus and Thisbe," is meant to amuse the wedding guests, but due to their lack of skill, it becomes a source of comedic relief instead.

Titania always speaks in verse, sometimes unrhymed blank verse and sometimes rhymed verse.. Bottom usually speaks in prose but when he is being Pyramus he does speak in rhymed iambic pentameters as well as other rhythms

A modern day version of Puck's monologue from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" could be a spoken word poem or a rap that reflects the themes of mischief, magic, and the complexities of love in contemporary language and settings. It could explore ideas of identity, relationships, and the blurred lines between reality and fantasy in today's world.

Hermia is one of those characters, like Ophelia and the heroine of most Disney movies, who has no mother, and yet the absence of her mother is never explained.

The truth is that Hermia's mother is not required by the needs of the drama. Her father is important because he sets up the reason why Hermia should want to flee Athens by insisting that she marry Demetrius. Having a mother onstage would not add anything, and would just be another part where some guy would have to get dressed up in a dress.

Shakespeare actually points to the mistake of casting all of the family members for the sake of completeness in Peter Quince's script for Pyramus and Thisbe. In Act I Scene 2 he casts Snout as Pyramus's father, Starveling as Thisbe's mother and himself as Thisbe's father. By the time the play is performed, the parents' parts have been removed, as they are superfluous.

In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the relationships between characters are complex and interwoven. There are romantic relationships like Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius, as well as the conflicts and misunderstandings that arise from their interactions. Additionally, the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania, have a strained relationship that affects the mortal world. Ultimately, the play explores the dynamics of love, jealousy, and reconciliation within these various relationships.

Hermia is the daughter of Egeus in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, but she is in love with Lysander. This conflict drives much of the plot in the play.

The names of the fairy servants that attend Bottom are Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustardseed. the king and queen of the fairies are named Oberon and Titania. The servant of Oberon is Puck.

The overarching message of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the transformative power of love and the irrationality of human behavior when under its influence. The play explores themes of love, mistaken identity, and the blurred lines between reality and fantasy, ultimately celebrating the complexities of romantic relationships and the unpredictable nature of human emotion.

Ok,.I have to start my answer with another superstition: that elves/fairies really exist, that they inhabit a world of their own. and that there's a physical "gateway" or "door" between their world and our own. Find the door, pass through it, and you will step into the other world. There's only the one door, and it is very hard to find (in our world at least) BECAUSE IT MOVES ABOUT. And it moves from one location to another on Midsummer's night...

PS: The Faeries' world is where the dragons have gone to.

PPS: next Midsummer's, the door could open somewhere in YOUR neighbourhood....

Unfortunately, different editions of Shakespeare's plays have different line numbering so it is not altogether clear what passage you mean just from the numbers, unless you can be sure that we are using the same edition. I'm guessing that you are referring to the speech that starts "Set your heart at rest; the fairy land buys not the child of me."

This speech is Titania's response to Oberon's demand, "I do but beg a little changeling boy to be my henchman." Oberon wants this boy to be a servant; Titania says no, she wants this boy. This speech is her explanation. The boy's mother was a "votaress of my order", or some kind of nun. She, "being mortal, of that boy did die", or she died giving birth to him. Titania says "for her sake do I rear up her boy and for her sake I will not part with him."

The middle part of the speech talks about why Titania was particularly fond of the boy's mother. Apparently when she was pregnant they used to sit on the beach (Neptune's yellow sands) in India (in the spiced Indian air), at night watching the ships go by. The ships' full-bellied sails looked a bit like a pregnant belly, and the boy's mother would go about fething things (fetch me trifles) and bring them to Titania sort of like a merchant ship. Her waddling pregnant walk is called a "swimming gait"--a much nicer expression than waddle.

A Midsummer Night's Dream has been filmed several times. In 1935, the Oscar-winning film starring James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney and Olivia de Havilland, was directed by Max Reinhardt. In 1968, the Royal Shakespeare Academy production with Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Ian Richardson and Diana Rigg was directed by Peter Hall. The Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Adrian Noble was filmed in 1996. And finally in 1999, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Callista Flockhart and Christian Bale starred in a film directed by Michael Hoffman.

These are the most significant productions of the play on film.

Starveling is a tailor in William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." He is one of the amateur actors chosen to perform in the play "Pyramus and Thisbe" for Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding celebration.

A Midsummer Nights Dream takes place in the city of Athens, where king Theseus is getting ready to marry Hippolyta - the queen of the Amazons - who is a prisoner of war.

Theseus is clearly very excited about the marriage. We never really find out how Hippolyta feels about it.

Nick Bottom, a weaver, takes up the role of the bellows-mender in the play within a play performed by the craftsmen in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." He is one of the comic and bumbling characters in the play.

No-Hermia falls in love with Lysander whereas Helena falls in love with Demetrius (who is meant to be Hermias husband to be!)

Flute is a bellows-mender. He repairs bellows which were used to blow air on a fire to make it hotter. A bellows was sort of like an accordion: two pieces of wood were hinged with flexible leather between them. In one of the pieces of wood there was a valve which let air into the bellows but did not let it out; there was a nozzle pointing at the fire. As the bellows were opened, air was drawn through the valve into the leather bag, and when they were closed, the air was forced out through the nozzle. Of course the leather bag tended to get worn through use, and it was a bellows-mender's job to fix it. Flute's name and his job are jokes, as he is the one with the high-pitched voice who is going to play the girl, Thisbe. Hence "Flute", a high-pitched musical instrument. A bellows, however, makes a lot of huffing and puffing and wheezing and grunting sounds which, coming from a person, would sound most unladylike.

Lady Macbeth is saying that her hands are stained with the same blood as Macbeth's, symbolizing their shared guilt for their crimes. However, she feels ashamed that Macbeth is showing signs of weakness and guilt, as represented by a "heart so white," suggesting that he may not have the ruthlessness needed to see their plans through.

The forest in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" symbolizes transformation, freedom, and chaos. It serves as a magical realm where characters escape societal norms, find their true desires, and undergo personal growth. The forest's mystical atmosphere blurs realities, allowing for the exploration of love, reconciliation, and self-discovery among the characters.

The mechanicals are a group of working class men who are the clowns of the play. They decide to put on an amateur theatre production of Pyramus and Thisbe for the wedding of the duke Theseus. While practicing in the woods, Nick Bottom, a weaver, gets his head transformed into that of a *but*, and Titania, the fairy queen, presently falls in love with him.

"Fire and the Rain" by Girish Karnad is a reworking of the classical Greek play "The Iliad." It portrays the futility of war and the cyclical nature of violence through the story of the Trojan War. The play delves into themes of power, love, and destiny, exploring how these forces shape human lives and the world around them.

The source of the dramatic irony in Bottom's transformation is that he is unaware of his donkey head due to Puck's mischief with the love potion. This adds humor to the situation as everyone else in the play, including the audience, is aware of his comical appearance, creating a sense of irony and amusement.

Technically yes, have you seen the play? Well, Lysander and Hermia are meant to be a couple and then there is Helena and Demetrius who aren't together. Puk, a fairy puts the juice of a flower onto the eyes of Demetrius and Lysander who both fall in love with Helena, because the juice of the flower makes the person fall in love with the first person they see. It is like a dream because it is very magical and the lovers kind of switch around.

Helena is mostly considered a static character in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" because she does not undergo significant internal changes or personal growth throughout the play. Her feelings may shift based on external circumstances, but her core traits and motivations remain constant.

Some celebrities who could be great in a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" could include Emma Watson as Hermia, Tom Hiddleston as Oberon, Zendaya as Titania, and Jack Black as Bottom. Ultimately, the best choices would depend on the director's vision for the play and the availability and interest of the celebrities in participating.