A midsummer night's dream

Faille/Gandara/Zulueta

Title: A midsummer night Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

Date:  composition:  1593-1594    Publication:  1600 

Period/Style/Genre:  Period: XVI century Elizabeth  Genre: Comedy  Style:

Number of Characters:   12 Characters

Setting: The woods near Athens, Grecce

Robin Starveling: 

• Tailor chosen to play Thisbe mother 

Francis Flute: 

• Play a young girl in love
• Man

Peter Quince:

• Carpenter
• Plays the Prologue

Nick Bottom:

• Overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus
• Makes silly mistakes
• Man

Hippolyta:

• Queen of the Amazons
• Engaged to Theseus

Theseus: 

• Duke of Athens
• Engaged to Hippolyta

Egeus:

• Hermias Father
• Gave permission to Hermian to marry Demetrius

Helena:

• Young Woman of Athens
• In Love with Demetrius

Hermia:

• Egeus's daughter
• Women of Athens
• In love with Lysander

Demetrius:

• Young Man
• In live with Helena

Lysander:

• Young Man
• From Athens
• In love with Hermia

Titania: 

• Queen of Fairies
• Female

Oberon:

• King of fairies
• Male

Puck:

• Didn't have age as h was a fairy 
• Male
• Fairy 
 

Summary

Scene 1
Titania asks if Bottom want some nuts, but he replies that he would prefer a handful of dried peas and that he has a strange hungr for hay; all this happens while he lies in her lap with his ass head. Oberon and puck talk about the love charming spelled on Titania, and after that he proposes her to undo the magic if she yields the Indian child. Oberon removed the spell and asked for music to dance with the queen. Finally Puck also removes the spell of the ass head from Bottom.

Scene 2
Craftsmen are worried about his friend Bottom because he hasn't appeared, moreover with a beast in the forest. Starveling thinks that maybe the fairies have done something to him.  Snug enters tellign everyone that Theseus married. Just when they were leaving fot the play, Botoom appears and asks why are all so sad, going with them to perform the play.

Special Notes

A special characteristic of the play is the appeareance of many fairy characters, doting the story with misticism and making it unique. The performance of the play must be done with a lot of ornaments and costumes.

Another notable effect in this act is the useof background music proposed by fairies.

Finally, the participation of slept characters mixes reality with dream creating a superreal enviorment.


Personal Notes and Reactions

The story is very good, it happens in different settings and with uncommon characters as fairies. The difficulty at the moment of reading is to understand what characters want to say or what is ocurring because of the poetic use of english; also because of the weird actions of the fairies the story tends to confuse.