Shakespeare’s life and death dates | April 23 1564-1616 |
Globe Theater diameter | 84 feet |
Globe theater full capacity | 3,000 |
globe theater costs | groundlings 1 penny, upper gallery 2 pennies, expensive gallery 3 pennies |
Box office came from | ushers took pennies in many small boxes and kept them in an office |
break a leg | groundlings drooled on stage, actors may fall and break a leg |
life of a play | 10 performances |
Number of play and dates | 12th play, 1595-96 |
Setting | athens, greece |
Midsummer’s night | mirth, magic, and craziness |
How did theseus woo hippolyta? | with his sword in combat |
Demetrius and Helena’s first assumed relationship | Lysander claims demetrius slept with helena |
Alliterations | “That I did never- no, nor never can..””To fit your fancies to your father’s will…” |
Diana/Phoebe | The virgin moon |
Helena’s soliloquy | Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged cupid painted blind. |
Actors’ occupations | Quince – carpenter, putting the play togetherBottom – weaver, weaves a dreamSnug – joiner, joins world of magic and mortalsbellows mender, tinker, tailor, bringing the play together |
Pyramus and thisbe | Shakespeare got idea for Romeo and Juliet |
Sucking Dove | bottom’s malapropism for sitting dove and sucking lamb, innocencehe says he will roar very gently |
Hermia’s dream | dreams of a serpent eating her heart, Lysander tears her heart out |
Puck’s other names | Robin Goodfellow, merry wanderer |
Birds | Lysander says he will exchange the raven for the dove, hermia for helena |
Oberon and titania’s love | everlasting although they have squabbles |
Queen elizabeth I | A certain aim he took at a fair vestal (virgin) throned by the westcupid missed her |
“I am your spaniel… The more you beat me I will fawn on you.” | Helena to Demetrius |
Apollo/Daphne | Daphne ran away from Apollo and was turned into the laurel tree by her fatherHelena feels as if she is daphne chasing apollo instead, demetrius |
Kenning for lips | kissing cherries (demetrius to helena) |
Helena and Hermia’s former friendship | as close as sisters |
Lovers call their former loves | cankerblossom, raven, dwarf, minimus, knotgrass |
Bottom’s Dream | his dream is unfathomable, bottomless |
Oxymorons | hot ice, strange snow, tedious brief, tragical mirth |
Malapropisms | I see a voice, to spy an I can hear my Thisbe’s face, generally (individually), aggravate (moderate) |
Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 16, 2019