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Home › Culture › Literature › Shakespeare › A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Characters

THESEUS – Duke of Athens
EGEUS – Father to HERMIA
LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS – in love with HERMIA
PHILOSTRATE – Master of the revels to THESEUS
QUINCE – the Carpenter
SNUG – the joiner
BOTTOM – the weaver
FLUTE – the bellows-maker
SNOUT – the tinker
STARVELING – the tailor
HIPPOLYTA – Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to THESEUS
HERMIA – daughter to EGEUS, in love with LYSANDER
HELENA – in love with DEMETRIUS
OBERON – King of the fairies
TITANIA – Queen of the fairies
PUCK, or ROBIN GOODFELLOW – a fairy
PEABLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED – fairies
PYRAMUS, THISBE, WALL, MOONSHINE, LION – characters in the interlude performed by the clowns
Other Fairies – attending their King and Queen

Setting

PLAY
Athens, and a wood not far from it.

ACT I
Scene i: Athens. A room in the palace of Theseus.
Scene ii: The same. A room in a cottage.

ACT II
Scene i: A wood near Athens.
Scene ii: The same.
Scene iii: Another part of the wood.

ACT III
Scene i: The wood. The queen of fairies lying asleep.
Scene ii: Another part of the wood.




ACT IV
Scene i: The wood.
Scene ii: Athens. A room in Quince’s house.

ACT V
Scene i: Athens. An apartment.
Scene ii: The same.

Soliloquy

Act V: Scene ii
PUCK: Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon;
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
All with weary task fordone.
Now the wasted brands do glow,
Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud,
Puts the wretch that lies in woe
In remembrance of a shroud.
Now it is the time of night
That the graves, all gaping wide
Every one lets forth its sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide:
And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate’s team,
From the presence of the sun
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic; not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallow’d house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.




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