| Puck | Robin Goodfellow |
| Theseus | engaged to Hippolyta |
| Hippolyta | Queen of Athens |
| Philostrate | sent from Theseus to get merry young people to attend wedding (put all sadness in funerals) |
| Egeus | father of Hermia |
| Lysander | Hermia’s love |
| Hermia | daughter of Egeus |
| Demetrius | Helena’s love |
| Theseus | Duke of Athens |
| Theseus | getting married soon to Hippolyta |
| Theseus | believes Lysander & Demetrius are worthy, but Lysander lacks Egeus’s approval to marry Hermia |
| Hippolyta | getting married soon to Theseus |
| Hippolyta | engaged to Theseus |
| Egeus | wants her to marry Demetrius |
| Egeus | believes that if Hermia doesn’t marry Demetrius, then she can be killed (by Athenian Law) |
| Egeus | God to Hermia based on Theseus |
| Egeus | gave Hermia her beauty based on Theseus |
| Lysander | has given Hermia poems, love tokens, songs, serenades, bracelets made from his hair, rings, ribbons, baubles, knick-knacks, presents, posies, & candies |
| Lysander | worthy gentleman in Hermia’s POV |
| Hermia | Lysander’s love |
| Hermia | Demetrius’s love |
| Hermia | wants her father to see things her way |
| Demetrius | worthy gentleman in Egeus’s POV |
| Theseus | wants Hermia to see things her father’s way |
| Hermia | shows courage in telling Theseus her POV about refusing to marry Demetrius |
| Hermia | if she refuses to marry Demetrius, she’ll become a nun, be killed, or to never have any contact w/ any man |
| Hermia | willing to die and surrender her virginity to be w/ Lysander |
| Lysander | wants Demetrius to marry Egeus |
| Lysander | thinks his prospects are better than Demetrius’s |
| Demetrius | won Helena’s heart |
| Theseus | tells advice to Egeus & Demetrius |
| Theseus | gives tasks to Demetrius & Egeus about the wedding |
| Lysander | says true love never runs smooth |
| Lysander | has a widowed aunt |
| Aunt | elder lady & childless |
| Aunt | wealthy; looks at Lysander as her only son |
| Aunt | house 20m from Athens |
| Aunt’s House | Athenian laws doesn’t have to be followed there |
| Woods | 3m outside town |
| Woods | where Lysander met Hermia with Helena in the morning in May |
| Helena | describes Hermia as a magnet towards Demetrius |
| Helena | wants to know how Hermia makes Demetrius love her |
| Hermia | running away w/ Lysander |
| Lysander | wishes Helena luck for Demetrius |
| Helena | thinks she’s just as good as Hermia |
| Love | functions through the mind |
| Love | like a child, b/c it’s always misled in making a choice |
| Demetrius | swore an oath to Helena before he met Hermia |
| Helena | tells Demetrius of Lysander’s plans |
| Peter Quince | carpenter |
| Snug | joiner |
| Nick Bottom | weaver |
| Francis Flute | bellows-mender |
| Snout | tinker |
| Robin Starveling | tailor |
| Peter Quince | reads the cast members’ list for Pyramus & Thisbe |
| Nick Bottom | plays Pyramus |
| Francis Flute | plays Thisbe |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 1/Act 2
July 14, 2019