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Contents:
I- William Shakespeare
Ii- A Midsummer Nighttime�s Dream:
- A- Brief History of the Play
B- People in the Play
C- The One-act
- a- Act 1- Scene i
b- Act 2- Scene 1- Scene two
c- Deed 3- Scene 1- Scene ii
d- Human activity 4- Scene one
east- Act v- Scene 1
I- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare of Stradford-upon-Avon. (John Shakespeare kept a full general store; he dealt in wool and other produce, and gradually acquired belongings). John married Mary Arden, daughter of this father�s landlord, a human being of some property. The tertiary of their 8 children was William, born on April 23rd, 1564.
There is fiddling documentation for Shakespeare�s boyhood. Nobody knew that he was going to exist a dramatist most whom whatsoever information would be prized in the centuries to come up. The most of import record that we take is a marriage license issued past the Bishop of Worcester on November 27th, 1582, to allow William Shakespeare to marry Anne Hathaway, seven or viii years his senior.
(Furthermore, the Bishop permitted the matrimony after reading the banns merely one time instead of iii times, evidence of the want of haste. The need was explained on May 26th, 1583 (half dozen months later), when the christening of Susanna, daughter of William and Anne Shakespeare, was recorded at Stratford. Two years later, on February. ii, 1585, the records show the birth of twins to the Shakespeare, a boy and a girl who were christened Hamnet and Judith.
What W. Shakespeare was doing in Stratford during the early years of his married life, or when he went to London, we do not know. How Shakespeare broke into the London theatres equally a dramatist and an actor, we do not know either. But what we do know is that past 1594, Shakespeare was a fellow member of the company of actors known as the Lord Chamberlain�s Men. Shakespeare was both an actor and a shareholder in the company.
And what we do know also is that his plays were popular and that he was highly successful in his vocation. His first play may take been «The Comedy of Errors», acted maybe in 1591.
From his plays: Henry VI, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, the taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer night�south Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much ado most nothing, Julius Caesar, As you like it, 12th night, All�s well that ends well, Othello, King Lear....
Shakespeare retired completely near 1613.
In the grade of his career in London, he made enough money to enable him to retire to Stratford with a competence. His purchase on May quaternary, 1597, of «New Place» in Stradford, with a handsome garden, indicates his increasing prosperity. There, his wife and children lived while he busied himself in the London theatres. The summertime before he acquired «New Place», his life was darkened by the decease of his only son, Hamnet, a kid of eleven.
[Shakespeare�s daughter Susanna made a good match in 1607 with Dr John Hall, a prominent Stratford dr.. This second daughter, Judith, did not marry until she was 31 years old, and then, under scandalous circumstances, she married Thomas Quiney, a Stratford wine merchant.]
On April 23rd, 1616, the anniversary of his birth, Due west. Shakespeare died, and he was cached as an honored citizen. On August 6th, 1623, a few months before the publication of the nerveless edition of Shakespeare�s plays, Anne Shakespeare joined her husband in death.
Shakespeare is now read, studied, and quoted in eighty languages.
II- A Midsummer Night�southward Dream:
A- Cursory History
«A Midsummer Nighttime�s Dream» is a continuously pop work. It was licensed for press on October 8th, 1600, and was printed in the same year.
Internal evidence indicates that Shakespeare wrote «A Midsummer Night�s dream» for the hymeneals of some great personage, only that personage�s identity has escaped literary historians. [Scholars have guessed that it might accept been written for the wedding of William Stanley, Earl of Derby, and Elizabeth Vere, daughter of the Earl of Oxford, which took place in the presence of Queen Elizabeth, at her palace at Greenwich on Jan 26th, 1595.]
A Midsummer Night�s Dream has had a long and interesting phase history. [How bang-up was its popularity when Shakespeare�s company performed it in the play -house.] It was listed among the comedies for which Shakespeare was famed.
B- People in the Play:
| ane- Theseus: Duke of Athens ii- Egeus: Male parent of Hermia 3- Lysander: In dear with Hermia iv- Demetrius: In love with Hermia 5- Hippolyta: Queen of the Amazons 6- Hermia: in love with Lysander seven- Helena: in dear with Demetrius viii- Oberon: King of the fairies 9- Titania: Queen of the fairies 10- Puck: Robin Goodfellow | eleven- Nick bottom: The beast (adjusted) 12- Peter Quince: Player 13- Tom snout: Role player 14- Francis Flute: Thespian 15- Peaseblossom: Fairy sixteen- Cobweb: Fairy 17- Moth: Fairy eighteen- Mustardseed: Fairy 19- Fairy: with the Queen xx- Fairies: with King/Queen |
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C- The Comedy
Don't focus on story in "A Midsummer Dark'southward Dream".
It's most ideas and emotion rather than plot.
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A long time ago, when there were still fairies in the world, there lived in the state of Greece a great and powerful Duke, called Theseus. In the boondocks of Athens, where this Duke ruled, there was a law that a father could choose the man his daughter must ally, and, if she disobeyed him in this thing, she could be punished by expiry.
One 24-hour interval, while Theseus, Duke of Athens, and his bride-to-be, Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, were planning the festivities for their forthcoming nuptials, Egeus enters with his daughter Hermia, and her two suitors, Lysander and Demetrius. Egeus complains that Hermia prefers Lysander and refuses to marry his own choice, Demetrius and requests that the Athenian Law be enforced if she persists in her defiance.
Now, nosotros�ll leave y'all with Theseus and Hippolyta � !
ACT one
Scene 1: (Athens. The Palace of Theseus)
Enter Theseus, Hippolyta (Philostrate with others)
Theseus: Now cute Hippolyta, our nuptial hour has come up, four happy days bring in another moon... only, O, how slow they laissez passer!
Hippolyta: Four days volition quickly steep themselves in night. Four nights will quickly dream away the time; and then, the moon shall witness the night of our wedding.
Theseus: Become, Philostrate,
Tell the Athenian Youth to be happy
Awaken the lively spirit of gaiety
Turn melancholy to Jollity
For Sad people aren�t wanted in our ceremony
Exit Philostrate
Hippolyta: I captured you in my state of war with the Amazons,
and won your love doing you injuries,
but I will ally yous in some other land
with pomp, with triumph and corking festivity.
Enter Egeus, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius.
Egeus: Happy be Theseus, our famous duke!
Theseus: Thanks, good Egeus: what�s the news with yous?
Egeus: I come full of vexation, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia.
Stand forth, Demetrius.
My noble lord, this man has my consent to marry her.
Stand forth, Lysander.
And, my gracious knuckles, this man has bewitched my child and has made her love him. She says she volition marry no one except him. //
You, you, Lysander, you take sung verses of love past moonlight, at her window, you have turned her obedience, which is due to me, to stubborn harshness. And, my gracious duke, if she will not, here earlier your grace, consent to ally Demetrius, I demand that she be killed co-ordinate to the law of Athens.
Theseus: What do you say, Hermia? consider your position carefully. To y'all, your father should be every bit a GOD, accept his advice� Demetrius is a worthy gentleman, he deserves your love.
Hermia: So does Lysander.
Theseus: Peradventure he does, merely he is not your father�south choice.
Hermia: I wish my father looked with my optics.
Theseus: Rather your eyes must wait with his sentence.
Hermia: Pardon me, your Grace, but I want to know the worst that may happen to me in this case if I refuse to wednesday Demetrius.
Theseus: Either to dice, or promise to requite up for ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires, examine well your passion, whether accept your father�south choice or endure the life of a nun, in single happiness.
Hermia: My soul consents to grow, alive and die this way my lord.
Theseus: Take time to think . I am to exist married in four days� time , you shall give me your answer at my union... Upon that day, either prepare to die for disobedience to your father�southward will, or promise austerity and single life .
Demetrius: Give up, sweet Hermia... and, Lysander, give me my certain right.
Lysander: You have her begetter�s love, Demetrius; allow me accept Hermia.
Egeus: You...Lysander... true, he has my love, and Hermia is mine... all my right of her, I requite it to Demetrius.
Lysander: I am, my lord, as well derived as he, my dear is more than than his, and, above all, I am beloved of beautiful Hermia. Why shouldn�t I prosecute my right? Demetrius has made Nedar�s daughter, Helena, fall in dearest with him... he has won her soul, and Helena withal loves him.
Hermia: How could I make Helena unhappy by marrying the man she loves dearly?
Theseus: I must confess that I�ve heard and so much but, being over-full of self-affairs, my heed did lose information technology. Demetrius, come; and � come, Egeus. Y'all shall go with me. In that location are some things I want to tell you lot...
As for you, fair Hermia, you have to choose betwixt marrying Demetrius or being condemned to decease, or to a vow of unmarried life.
Come, my Hippolyta.
Demetrius and Egeus, continue. I must employ you in some concern concerning our marriage, and hash out with you well-nigh something nearly that concerns yourselves.
Egeus: With duty and want nosotros follow you
Exit Stay Lysander + Hermia.
Lysander: What at present, my dear? Why is your cheek so pale?
Hermia: O hell! to choose dearest by another�s eyes!
Lysander: Listen to me, Hermia. I have a widow aunt of great revenue who has no child. She lives in a remote business firm, some 20 miles away from Athens, and she respects me equally her only son. At that place, gentle Hermia, I can ally you, and the sharp Athenian Law cannot pursue united states of america to that identify. If y'all love me and so, leave your male parent�south house tomorrow nighttime; and, in the forest, where I met you once with Helena, I will wait for you. Meet me at that place and we volition run away together.
Hermia: My good Lysander! I swear to you I will meet you tomorrow in that same place you accept appointed me.
Lysander: Keep your promise, honey. Look, here comes Helena.
Enter Helena.
Hermia: Hello, fair Helena! Where are yous going?
Helena: Are you calling ME fair? Demetrius loves YOUR off-white, you type of beauty!
My ear should catch you voice, my middle your middle,
My tongue should grab your natural language�s sweet melody.
If the world were mine -- excepted Demetrius of course -- I would give it to be transformed to you.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art yous control the motion of Demetrius� heart!
Hermia: I pout upon him, yet he loves me nevertheless!
I give him curses, even so he gives me love!
The more I hate him, the more he follows me!
Helena: The more I love him, the more he hates me!
Hermia: His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine!
Helena: None just your beauty! Would that fault be mine!
Hermia: Accept comfort, he no more shall run into my face.
Lysander and myself will fly this identify.
Before the fourth dimension I saw Lysander, Athens seemed as a paradise to me.
I was divinely happy before I loved him. But now, without him, this sky would turn into a hell!
Lysander: Helen, nosotros shall tell you our secret.
We take decided that, tomorrow night, we shall get abroad from Athens.
Hermia: And in the wood where yous and I oft used to lie upon primrose beds, there, my Lysander and myself shall see, and from Athens plow away our optics, to seek new friends and stranger companies.
Goodbye, sweet play friend. Pray for us and say good luck to Demetrius.
Lysander, we mustn�t run across each other until tomorrow midnight.
Lysander: As yous wish, my Hermia.
Go out Hermia
Helena, adieu
Exit Lysander
Helena: How much happier some tin exist than others.
Through Athens I am thought equally beautiful every bit her. Only, what of that? Demetrius doesn�t retrieve so!
While he was looking at Hermia�s eyes, he swore he was simply mine. And when he felt he could have Hermia, he forgot about me !!
I will go tell him of Hermia�southward flight, then he will pursue her tomorrow dark to the forest.
Demetrius may not beloved me, merely if I tell him almost Hermia and Lysander, he will exist grateful to me.
If I cannot take his love, at least I can have his thank you.
Exit Helena
[ She hoped likewise much, notwithstanding. Demetrius gave her no thanks; but he was glad she had told him. He was certain that if he followed Hermia into the wood the side by side nighttime, he could forestall her from marrying Lysander.
The next evening, after dark, Hermia and Lysander met in the wood. Demetrius went in that location, as well, and Helena, sadly, followed him.
But they were not the only people in the wood that night. This was Midsummer Night, when the fairies met and danced together in the moonlight. They had been busy all mean solar day preparing for the dance, flying everywhere in search of new and delicate things to please their king and queen.]
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Scene 1: (A wood near Athens)
Enter a Fairy at one door, and Puck at another.
Puck: How at present, spirit! Where do y'all wander?
Fairy: I fly over hills and valleys, through bushes and thorns, over parks and boundaries, through floods and fire.
I wander everywhere, more quickly than the moon goes round the globe. I assist the fairy Queen to water her flowers. The tall yellowish flowers are her bodyguard of soldiers: [You tin see spots on their yellowish coats. Those are jewels, given to them, by the fairies,
and y'all can recognize them by those little chocolate-brown spots.]
Goodbye, yous merry spirit, I must go.
The Queen and all her fairies will be arriving soon.
Puck: There is a festivity here tonight, but the King and Queen have quarrelled.
Queen Titania has stolen a lovely little child, half fairy and half-human being, from an Indian Rex, and she keeps him always with her. Jealous King Oberon wants the child to be his servant, but Titania refuses to part with him.
Fairy: Either I error your shape, or else you are that malicious fairy called Robin Goodfellow. Aren�t you he who likes playing tricks on people? Who misleads nighttime-wanderers, laughing at their harm? Aren�t you the merry trivial young man total of jokes and tricks?
Puck: Yous are right. I am that merry wanderer of the night. I amuse Oberon and make him grin...
Brand way, fairy, here comes Oberon.
Fairy: And here is my mistress !
Enter Oberon at one door with his train, and Titania at some other with hers.
Oberon: Y'all !! Proud Titania !! This is a bad meeting on such a beautiful night!
Titania: What? Is it you, Jealous Oberon !!?
Fairies... run away quickly, I don�t want to stay with Oberon. I have given up his Company!
Oberon: Expect, you undisciplined and stubborn animate being! Am I non yous lord?
Queen: And then I must be you lot lady, but I know that when you went abroad from fairyland, yous were versing love to Hippolyta! Why did you come back? Only, of course, your mistress must be wedded to Theseus! Are you coming to requite them Joy and prosperity?
Oberon: How can you, Titania, say that about me and Hippolyta, knowing that I know your love to Theseus?!!
Queen: These are the forgeries of jealousy! We have never, since the middle Summertime�s spring, met on loma or in forest to dance to the whistling wind!!
Oberon: Why are you quarrelling with me? I am simply asking you to give me your niggling boy to be my faithful servant!
Queen: Gear up your eye at rest. Don�t inquire me for him anymore! All your fairy coin won�t purchase this kid from me. His mother is dead. She was one of my favourite friends. For her sake I bring upwards her male child, and for her sake I shall not part with him.
Oberon: How long do yous intend to stay in this woods?
Queen: Till later Theseus� wedding solar day.
If yous will patiently dance in our circular, and see our moonlight festivity, go with us.
If not, avert me and I�ll avoid you.
Oberon: Give me that boy and I�ll go with yous.
Queen: Not for your fairy Kingdom... Fairies, abroad! We shall get angry if we stay!
Leave Titania + her train.
Oberon: Well, get your way! But earlier you leave this wood, I�ll make you lot sad and sorry for this injury!
[And Titania danced off with her fairies, leaving Oberon lonely, wondering angrily how he could punish her and force her to give him the child.
Suddenly, he thought of a program, and sent at one time for Puck or Robin Goodfellow, the fairy whom he loved and trusted most.]
Oberon: My gentle Puck, come here!
Bring me that footling purple flower which people call «Love - in idleness». We will put the juice of this flower on Titania�s sleeping eyes, and, when she wakes, she volition dear the kickoff affair she sees, even if it�s a clown, a monkey or a wild animate being. She will love information technology madly, and will lose all interest in the little Indian Male child.
Puck: I�ll fly off at once and search the world in forty minutes to look for the little imperial flower.
Get out Puck.
Oberon: Having once this juice, I�ll watch Titania when she is asleep, and drop the liquor of it in her eyes. The next thing she sees when she wakes upwardly (be it a beast, a king of beasts, a acquit...). She shall pursue it with the soul of love. And when I have the child from her, I�ll brand her requite me dorsum her love...
But who comes here? I am invisible, and I will overhear their conference.
Enter Demetrius, Helena post-obit him.
Demetrius: I don�t dear yous, and then don�t follow me! Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
You told me they would run abroad to this wood, and here am I, angry because I cannot meet Hermia.
Go away, and don�t follow me any more than!
Helena: You concenter me, y'all hardhearted magnet! Instead of being brutish, I am tender-hearted and faithful. Abandon your ability to concenter, and I shall take no ability to follow you.
Demetrius: Exercise I tempt you? or rather practise I not, in plainest truth, tell you I do not nor I cannot honey you !
Helena: And even for that exercise I love you the more. The more you crush me, the more I try to win your eye. Neglect me, lose me; I only ask you to treat me like your canis familiaris and let me follow you.
Demetrius: Don�t tempt too much the hatred of my spirit, for I am ill when I look on yous.
Helena: And I am sick when I don�t look on you.
Demetrius: You stain your reputation when you leave the city and commit yourself into the hands of one who doesn�t love you; and stay with him at night in a deserted place.
Helena: You, in my respect, are all the world. Then how can it be said I�thousand lonely when all the world is hither to look on me?
Demetrius: I�ll run from yous and hibernate, and leave you to the mercy of wild beasts.
Helena: The wildest beasts don�t accept a centre such as yours. Run when you lot want! I�ll follow you!
Demetrius: Let me become! If y'all follow me, be sure that I shall do yous mischief in the forest.
Helena: In the temple, in the boondocks, the field, you lot do me mischief, Demetrius! Why can�t women fight for honey as men may practice !!?
Exit Demetrius.
I�ll follow y'all, and make a heaven of hell, to dice upon the mitt I honey so well.
Exit Helena.
Oberon: Fare well, nymph. Earlier he leaves this woods, you shall fly him and he shall seek your love.
Enter puck.
Welcome wanderer, do y'all have the flower with you lot?
Puck: Hither it is.
Oberon: I pray you lot, give it to me. I know a banking concern where violets grow, there Titania sleeps sometimes at dark. With the juice of this flower, I�ll touch her optics, and make her total of hateful fantasies.
Yous, take some of it and search this wood, a sweet Athenian Lady is in love with a disdainful beau. Expect until he is asleep and drop some of the juice on his eyelids. So, when he wakes and sees the lady, he will beloved her over again.
You shall know the homo past the Athenian clothes he has on. Be careful, when he wakes upward, I want him to dear her more than she loves him.
When you finish, come to come across me here at the offset cock crow.
Puck: Fearfulness not, my lord, your servant shall exercise so.
Leave (both)
Scene 2: (Another part of the wood)
Enter Titania with her train.
Queen: Come now, dance and sing me a fairy song to sleep. And so, become,
do you work and permit me rest.
Fairies sing.
ane- Spotted snakes with double natural language
Come not near our fairy queen,
If you lot come up and do her incorrect,
we�ll disturb you in yours dreams.
two- Weaving spiders come not here,
worm nor snail do not offence,
If you all approach so near,
We�ll ourselves take our queen�s defence.
3- Philomel, with melody Chorus
Sing in our sweetness Lullaby (i)
(bis) ( Lulla, Lulla, Lullaby )
Never damage, nor spell nor charm,
Come our lovely lady night,
So adept dark with lullaby (ai)
( Lulla, Lulla, Lullaby )
she sleeps.
Fairy: Permit�s go from here,
now all is well,
she needn�t any sentinel.
Exit fairies.
Enter Oberon ( and squeezes the flower on Titania�s eyelids )
Oberon: When you wake up, you�ll fall in love with the showtime thing you run across.
Open up your eyes when something ugly is near.
Exit.
Enter Lysander, Hermia.
Lysander: Fair love, to speak truth, I accept forgotten our way. Let�s rest hither, if you want.
Hermia: Exist it and then, Lysander. Detect a bed for yourself, for I upon this bank will remainder my head.
Lysander: This shall serve as pillow for u.s. both.
Hermia: No, good Lysander: for my sake, my dear, lie further off nonetheless, do not lie so near.
And then far exist distant; and practiced nighttime, sweet friend, May your love to me never alter, till your sweet life ends.
Lysander: Amen, amen to that fair prayer,
Permit my life end when I�m not loyal!
Here is my bed. You lot slumber and rest, my love!
They sleep
Enter puck.
Puck: Through the forest I have gone
But Athenian, I�ve found none.
On whose eyes I might driblet
This bloom�due south force in stirring love?
Night and silence ! who is here?
Garments of Athens he wears,
This is he, my chief said,
Who despised the Athenian maid.
And here, the maiden, sleeping sound
On the dank and muddied ground.
Pretty soul! She should not lie
well-nigh this man who lacks of dear .
Immature man! Upon your eyes I throw,
` All the ability this charm does owe
Wake up, and in love y'all�ll be
With the commencement person you will see.
Then awake when I�1000 gone,
For I must now, go to Oberon.
Exit.
Enter Demetrius, Helena running.
Helena: Stay, otherwise yous�ll Kill me, sweet Demetrius. Will y'all in the dark leave me? Don�t do so!
Demetrius: Stay on your ain peril ! I alone will go
Exit.
Helena: I am out of breath in this chase !
the more I pray, the less I please Demetrius.
Happy is Hermia, wherever she lies,
for she has blessed and bonny eyes .
How came her eyes then bright ? Not with salt tears.
If and then, my eyes are more done than hers.
No, No, I am as ugly as a conduct,
for beasts that meet me run away for fright .
That�southward why Demetrius flies my presence !
Who is here ? Lysander ! on the ground?
Dead or comatose? I encounter no blood, no wound.
Lysander, If yous�re alive, good sir, wake upwardly !
Lysander: (waking upward) Helena, my love ! I�ll run through fire for your sugariness sake !
Beautiful Helena, I love you !!
Where is Demetrius? I want to kill him !
Hell: Do not say so, Lysander; do not say so,
Even though he loves your Hermia, Hermia
notwithstanding loves you; then, be happy !
Lysander: Happy with Hermia ? No!! I regret every minute I spent with her.
Not Hermia, simply Helena I dear !!
Lysander: Are yous making fun of me?
Isn�t it enough, young man, that I never deserved a sweet look from Demetrius optics?
Good day, I idea y'all were of more gentleness.
Should a lady who is refused past one human being,
be driveling by another one !!?
Leave.
Lysander: She didn�t come across Hermia who is sleeping here. Don�t y'all ever come near Lysander, Hermia.
I will try with all my powers to honor Helena and be her Knight.
Exit.
Hermia: ( waking ) Help me, Lysander ! help me to take this ophidian off my chest !
Oh! what a dream I had !
Lysander, await how scared I am !
I thought a snake had eaten my heart and yous sat grin at his cruel prey !
Lysander ! Lord !
What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?
Where are you ? Speak if you lot hear me !
Speak if yous love me !!
No? then you�re non here !
Either dead or I�ll find y'all immediately !
Exit.
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Act Iii
[There were other people in the wood that night, in addition to the fairies and the four Athenians. Some ordinary working people were planning to human action a drama at the Knuckles�s palace for his marriage, and they had come into the forest to practise the play]
Scene 1: (The same forest, Titania lying asleep)
Enter the actors ( Quince, Bottom, Fluke, Snout ) talking nearly the play then Enter Puck.
Puck: what practice we take hither, so near the fairy Queen? What? preparing a play ?I�ll be an auditor; an actor likewise maybe, if I come across crusade.
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How tedious is this play ! I�ll follow this man... and alter him into a beast ... This will be funny !
Exit
Re enter Puck, Bottom ( animate being )
Quince: O monstrous ! O strange ! we are taunted .
Go out ( actors).
Puck: I�ll follow yous.
Get out
Bottom: Why do they run away? they�re trying to make me afraid, but I�m not.
Re-enter Snout.
Snout: O Lesser, you are changed ! what do I see on you?
Bottom: What exercise y'all see? Don�t endeavor to make a fool of me ! you are the fool yourself !
Re - enter Quince.
Quince: Anoint you, Lesser ! Bless you lot ! you lot are transformed !
Bottom: I see, this is to make a fool of me, to affright me if they could. Only I will non move from this place, I will walk up and downwardly here, and I will sing, and so that they tin hear I�yard non afraid.
He sings.
Titania: (Waking) What beautiful affections wakes me from my flowery bed? please, sing again, I love to hear your voice and meet you!!
Bottom sings.
I pray you, gentle mortal, sing over again. yous voice is every bit lovely as your face. You force moves me and then much that on the first view I say, I swear, I love you.
Lesser: Mistress, you should take little reason for that. And still, to say the truth, reason and beloved go on picayune visitor together present.
Titania: You are every bit wise as you are beautiful.
Bottom: If I were wise, I would be able to get out of this woods.
Titania: Out of this wood do not desire to get: you lot shall remain hither, whether you want it or no.
I am a spirit and I love you. Therefore go with me, and I�ll requite y'all fairies to attend on you; they shall bring y'all jewels from the deep.
Peaseblossom ! Fiber ! Moth ! and Mustardseed !
Enter the 4 fairies.
Peas: Ready.
Cob: and I
Moth: and I
Must: and I
All: where shall nosotros go?
Titania: Exist Kind and courteous to this sweet gentleman.
Dance round him when he walks, play in his sight.
Feed him with fruit, and steal nutrient from the bees for him.
Peas: Hail, mortal !
Cob: Hail !
Moth: Hail !
Must: Hail !
Titania: Come, serve him, and lead to him to my fairy garden.
Scene two: (Another part of the wood).
Enter Oberon.
Oberon: I wonder if Titania is awaked, and so, what was information technology that adjacent came in her middle?!!
Enter Puck.
Her comes my messenger. Hello, mad spirit ! what�southward going on tonight in this woods?
Puck: My mistress is in honey with a monster.
While she was in her sleeping hour, a crew of rude mechanics were met together to rehearse a play, intended for great Theseus� nuptial mean solar day. I transformed i of them into a beast, so, at his sight, his fellows flew abroad. When, in that moment, Titania waked and, straightway, loved the fauna.
Oberon: This falls out better than I could think...
But, take you put on the Athenian�southward optics the love juice as I told you lot to do?
Puck: I took him sleeping, the Athenian woman past his side, so, when he waked, he must run across her.
Enter Demetrius and Hermia.
Oberon: Stand close, this is the aforementioned Athenian.
Puck: This is the woman, but not this the human.
Her: Demetrius, where is Lysander? Will you tell me ?
Demetrius: Why are you angry with me, When I dearest you so much?
Her: I�g angry because I believe that you have killed Lysander ! If you have killed him, kill me too or tell me where he is !
Demetrius: I haven�t killed him !
Her: Tell me that he is alive and then I�ll become away and never run across y'all again.
Demetrius: I don�t know where he is !
Her: Anyway, you lot won�t see me again whether he is expressionless or alive.
Exit.
Demetrius: It�s useless to follow her when she�southward similar this !
I�ll stay here and become some sleep.
Lie downwards and sleep.
Oberon: What have you done ?
Yous have put the liquid on the eyes of the incorrect human !
I�ll put it in this man�s eyes . He must wake and love Helena.
Go, get, chop-chop, and bring Helena hither before he wakes !
Puck: I go, I go ! Expect how I get ! Swifter than an pointer from the
Tartar�s bow.
Leave.
Oberon puts the juice on Demetrius� eyes.
Re-enter Puck.
Puck: Captain of our fairy ring, Helena is here at paw,
and the other human is post-obit her, telling her about
his love for her.
Oberon: Stand aside. The dissonance they brand will cause
Demetrius to awake.
Enter Lysander, Helena.
Helena: Why are you lot making fun of me?
Lysander: Why should you lot think and so? I love you lot,
I�1000 not making fun of you lot !
Helena: but you love Hermia !
Lysander: Forget about Hermia !I had no sentence
when I told her I loved her.
Helena: And you don�t have any judgement now either,
now that you�ve forgotten well-nigh her .
Lysander: Demetrius loves her , and he doesn�t love yous !
Demetrius: (walking) O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect,
divine ! y'all eyes are like jewels, oh, let me
Buss you, my princess !
Helena: I run into that you both want to make fun of me !
Hate me, as I know you do, merely don�t join together to hurt me.
Lysander: You are unkind, Demetrius. You beloved Hermia, you know I know that. And so, I give yous Hermia only allow me love Helena.
Helena: You�re both making fun of me !
Demetrius: Lysander, keep your Hermia, I don�t desire her. My center belongs to Helen now.
Lysander: Helen, it is not and so.
Demetrius: Wait where yous love comes.
Enter Hermia.
Her: Lysander ! why did you unkindly leave me
lone in the forest?
Lysander: Why should I stay when love does press me to go?
Her: What love could printing Lysander from my side.
Lysander: Lysander�due south love, beautiful Helena.
Why are you looking for me? yous should
know that I left because I hate you.
Her: You lot�re not speaking as you think; information technology cannot be !
Helena: She is i of this confederacy ! they have
conjoined all there to make fun of me !
Injurious Hermia! Most ungrateful maid! Accept you forgotten all schooldays friendship? All childhood innocence? Nosotros grew together like a double ruby-red, seeming parted, but united in our partition! We were with two bodies but i middle! Why take you joined the 2 men to brand a fool of your poor friend?
Her: I�m amazed at your passionate words. I do non
despise you. Information technology seems that you despise me!
Helena: Haven�t yous fix Lysander to follow me and praise my eyes and face? Oasis�t yous made your other beloved Demetrius call me goddess, nymph and divine?
You shouldn�t laugh at me! you should pity me rather than despise me!
Her: I don�t empathise what you mean by this!
Helena: If you accept any compassion, grace or manners, y'all
wouldn�t brand me such an argument.
But, cheerio, I�ll go back to Athens and not
follow you lot anymore. I exit my foolish heart behind.
Lysander: Stay, gentle Helena; hear my alibi, my love,
my life, my soul, off-white Helena!
Lysander: Stay, gentle Helena; hear my alibi, my love, my life !
Helena: O excellent !
Her: Sweet, practice not make fun of her !
Lysander: Helen, I honey yous ; by my life, I practise !
Demetrius: I love yous more than he does .
Lysander: If you say so, withdraw and prove it too.
Demetrius: Quick, come !
Her: Lysander, where are you going?
Lysander: Away from you!
Her: No! no! Why are yous grown so rude?
What alter is this, sweet beloved?
Lysander: Your honey? Out! Out!
Demetrius, I�ll keep my word with you
Demetrius: I don�t trust your discussion.
Lysander: What, should I hurt her, kill her dead?
Although I hate her, I won�t harm her so!
Her: What, tin can you do me greater harm than hate?
Hate me? Am I not Hermia? Are you non Lysander?
I am equally beautiful at present as I ever was.
Since night you loved me; yet since night you lot
left me. Why? What happened?
Lysander: Ah, by my life! I don�t desire to see you lot any more than.
Therefore, be out of hope, be sure that I exercise hate
you lot and dearest Helena.
Her: O you lot! You thief of honey! What? Have you come up past
night and stolen my honey�s heart from him?
Helena: Good Hermia! Exercise non be so bitter with me!
Lysander: Go away, Hermia! Leave Helena alone!
Demetrius: Don�t speak of Helena! don�t take her part,
for if you intend to show love to her, you
shall pay for information technology
Lysander: Follow me if you dare to see who deserves Helena all-time.
Demetrius: Follow you lot? I�ll go with you!
Go out Lysander - Demetrius
Her: Yous, mistress, all this trouble considering of you.
Helena: I�ll no longer stay in your cursed visitor.
I shall run away!
Get out
Her: I�m amazed! I don�t know what to say!
Exit
Oberon: Did this happen past mistake or did yous mean
to pour the magic liquid on the wrong person?
Puck: Believe me, King of Shadows, I made a fault.
Didn�t you tell me I should know the men
by the Athenian clothes he had on? Laugh
But I am glad this happened, information technology�s fun to lookout man
them quarrelling!
Oberon: You see that these lovers have gone to look for
a good identify to fight. Fill the night with a thick
black cloud, and then atomic number 82 the two men far from each
other. When they are tried of looking for each other,
they�ll lie downwards and fall comatose. Pour this magic
liquid on Lysander�s eyes, it will make his old dearest
to Hermia come up back to plow when he wakes. And then
anybody will be happy. They will think that all this
has been only a dream.
And while y'all do that, I�ll get to Titania and take the petty male child from
her. Then I�ll set her free and she will stop loving the beast.
Exit.
Puck: Upwardly and downward, upwardly and downwards,
I will lead them, upward and down
I am feared in field and town
I will lead them upwards and downwards....
Here comes 1
Enter Lysander.
Lysander: Where are you lot, proud Demetrius? Speak now!
Puck: Here, I�m ready. Where are you?
Lysander: I volition be with you immediately.
Puck: Follow me so.
Exit Lysander.
Enter Demetrius.
Demetrius: Lysander, Speak once more! You lot delinquent, you
coward! Where do y'all hide your head?
Puck: Yous, coward! Come up, coward, come! yous child!
Demetrius: Are y'all in that location?
Puck: Follow my voice.
Exit both.
Enter Lysander
Lysander: He goes earlier me and still dares me on,
When I come where he calls, then he�s gone!
I followed fast, but faster he did fly!
I will rest here. (Lie downwardly)
Come up, y'all gentle day, for when you lot show me
your great light, I�ll discover Demetrius and go
revenge! Sleeps.
Enter Puck, Demetrius.
Puck: Hey, coward, why don�t y'all come?
Demetrius: Wait for me, if you cartel.
Where are you now?
Puck: come, I�1000 hither.
Demetrius: Y'all are mocking me! You shall pay for
that whenever. I see your face in the solar day light.
Lies down and sleeps
Enter Helena
Her: Never so tired, never so injure. I can no further get.
Here will I rest till the intermission of day.
Lies down and sleeps
Puck: On the basis, slumber audio.
I�ll apply to your heart,
gentle lover�due south remedy.
(Squeezes the herb on Lysander eyelids)
When you wake, you shall take
true delight in the sight
of your former lady�s middle.
And the state proverb known,
that every human being should take his ain,
in your waking shall be shown.
Jack shall have Jill
and all shall be well
Get out.
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Scene 1: (The woods. Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia, all lying asleep)
Enter Titania, Lesser, Fairies (4).
Oberon behind them.
Titania: Come up, sit down down on this flowery bed, while
I osculation your cute face up.
Lesser: Where�s Peaseblossom?
Peas: Set up.
Bottom: Scratch my head, Peaseblossom. Where�s
Mounsieur Cobweb?
Cob: Ready.
Bottom: Mounsieur Fiber, expert mounsieur, get your
weapon in your hand, and impale me a bee; and, good
mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag... Be conscientious
and then it doesn�t suspension!
Where�s Mounsieur Mustardseed?
Mustardseed: Ready. What�s your volition?
Bottom: Nothing, proficient mounsieur, just to help Peaseblossom
to scratch if my hair tickles me.
Titania: Will you lot hear some music, my sugariness beloved.
Bottom: I have a reasonable good ear in
music. Let�s have a rural one.
Music.
Titania: Say, sweet love, what practice you desire to swallow?
Bottom: I have a neat want to a bottle of hay: expert hay,
sweet hay, has no equal... and I want some nuts too...
Titania: I have a venturous fairy who shall seek the woods
and bring you new nuts.
Bottom: And now, I pray you, let none of yous people
bother me; I take a disposition for slumber come upon me.
Titania: Sleep, my beloved, I shall sing for you and wind you in
my artillery. Fairies, be gone, and spread yourselves to guard united states of america from all sides.
Exit Fairies
O, how I dear you!
They sleep
Enter Puck.
Oberon: Welcome, good Puck. Have you seen this sweetness sight?
I practise brainstorm to pity her. (He takes the boy)
Now, that I have the boy, I will undo this
hateful imperfection of her eyes.
Now, my Titania! Wake up, my sweet queen.
Titania: My Oberon, what visions have I seen!
I thought I was in honey with a beast!
Oberon: There lies your dear.
Titania: Ah! How did this happen? I can�t bear the sight of him now!
Oberon: Silence. Puck, take off this head, and brand all these
five (Bottom, Demetrius, Helena, Lysander, Her) fall into a deep
slumber and forget what has happened.
Puck: Fairy King, I hear the morning coming...
Oberon: Then, my queen, in silence... speedily, let�s go.
Titania: Come, my lord, and in our flight,
tell me how it came, this night
that I sleeping here was found,
with these mortals. On the ground.
Exit
wind horn
Enter Theseus (+train), Hippolyta, Egeus.
Theseus: What nymphs are these?
Egeus: My Lord, this is my daughter here asleep.
This Lysander, this Demetrius and this Helena
I wonder why they are here together.
The: No doubtfulness they rose upward early to observe the
rite of May; and, hearing our intent, came hither
in grace of our solemnity.
But, Egeus, isn�t this the 24-hour interval that Hermia should
requite answer of her choice?
Egeus: Information technology is, my Lord
The: Go, wake them.
(Servant wakes them with wind horns.
They all get-go upward).
Good morning, friends. St. Valentine is past.
Lysander: Pardon, my lord
they kneel
The: I pray you all, stand upwardly. I know you 2
are rival enemies, and so how come you�re
sleeping next to each other?
Lysander: My Lord, I shall respond amazedly, half sleeping
one-half waking; just, I swear, I cannot truly say
how I came here.
Merely, as I think, I came with Hermia. Our intent
was to be gone from Athens, where nosotros would get
married without the peril of the Athenian Law.
Egeus: Enough, enough, my lord! I beg the law upon his head.
They wanted to run away!
Demetrius, they would have defeated yous and me!
Demetrius: My lord, Helen told me of their escape, and I, in fury,
followed them. Helena followed me also because she loves me.
Only, my Lord, I don�t know by what power my honey to Hermia
melted as the snowfall, and all the faith, the power of my middle is
only Helena, now.
The: Fair lovers, y'all are fortunately met. Egeus, I will overrule
you lot will for, in the temple, with us, these couples shall eternally
exist joined.
Away, with us to Athens!
Iii and iii, we�ll hold a feast in great solemnity.
come, Hippolyta.
Get out Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus.
Demetrius: Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to
me that however we sleep, we dream. Don�t you retrieve
the Knuckles was here, and told us to follow him?
Her: Yes, and my father.
Helena: And Hippolyta.
Lysander: And he told us to follow him to the temple.
Demetrius: Then, nosotros are awake. Let�s follow him and let�southward
recount our dreams
Leave all.
Bottom (Waking): Quince! Flute! Snout!
They went away and left nosotros comatose!
What a vision I�ve had! What a dream!
I thought I was a clown!
How foreign! No man can report what my dream was!
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Scene 1: (Athens, the Palace of Theseus)
Enter Theseus, Hippolyta....
Hip: It�southward strange, my Theseus, what these lovers speak of.
The: More foreign than true. I can never believe
these antiquarian fables nor these fairy toys.
Lovers and poets have the same imagination.
Hip: Only, all the story of the night told over, and all their minds
transfigured so together, How foreign and admirable!
Enter Lovers (Lysander, Demetrius, Her, Helena)
The: Here come the lovers, full of joy and happiness.
May joy, gentle friends, joy and fresh days of
love accompany your hearts!
Lysander: And yours too!
The: Come up, at present, what show shall we have to
pass away this long age of three hours between
our later-supper and bedtime?
The atomic number 26 tongue of midnight has told twelve. Lovers to bed, information technology is almost fairy time!
Exit all
Enter Puck.
Puck: Now, it�s the time of night,
and we, fairies, that do run
from the presence of the sun,
following darkness like a dream
We are now playful and merry;
Not a mouse, shall disturb this hallowed house.
I am sent to sweep the grit behind the door.
Enter King, Queen + railroad train
Oberon: Through the house requite a weak light,
so that nosotros can sing and dance tonight.
Titania: Paw in hand, with fairy grace,
will nosotros sing and anoint this place.
Puck: Music, Vocal, dance
Oberon: Now until the interruption of day,
through this house each fairy stays, (wanders)
And so shall all the couples iii
ever truthful in loving exist
and the owner of this palace,
ever shall in safety rest.
Puck: If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
Else the Puck a liar call
So, practiced night unto you all
Give me your hands, if we be friends
and Robin shall restore amends.
Go out.
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