| Who wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream? | Shakespeare |
| What genre is the play? | comedy |
| 4 major categories of characters in the play | -royals-lovers-mechanicals-fairies |
| In and around what city does the story take place? | Athens |
| Hippolyta is the queen of what group of women? | the Amazons |
| Names Titania’s 4 fairy attends & Oberon’s 1 fairy attendant. | -Moth/Mote, Mustgro Seed, Peasblossom, Cobweb-Puck |
| What happens to bottom, & who falls in love with him in his altered state? | Bottom turns in the a donkey man while practicing a play & Titania falls in love w/ Bottom (as donkey man) |
| What do the mechanicals do after the marriages & before Puck’s final monologue? | Duke & Queen |
| Who said, “Lord what fools these morals be!” | Puck |
| Who said, “the course of true love never did run smooth?” | Lysander |
| What does the juice of Oberon’s magic flower do? | Makes you fall in love w/ the 1st person you see |
| Who does Helena love at the end of the play? | Demetrius |
| Who does Hermia love at the end of the play? | Lysander |
| Who does Demetrius love at the end of the play? | Helena |
| Name of the play that the mechanicals performed at the end of the show. | … |
| Who were the “groundlings”? | usually the poorer people who stood in the front of the stage |
| What genre of play did shakespeare invent? | tragedies, comedies, histories |
| Primary theatre (built in 1599 & rebuilt in 1614) that Shakespeare was associated with. | Globe theatre |
| What type of stage were the theaters Shakespeare work in? | 3/4 Thrust stage |
| When did Shakespeare live? | April 23, 1564-April 23, 1616 |
| Name 2 tragedies by Shakespeare. | -Hamlet-Macbeth |
| Name 2 comedies by Shakespeare. | -Twelfth Night- A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| Name 2 histories by Shakespeare. | -King John-Henry IV |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Shakespeare
August 5, 2019