Literary Terms
The genre of AMSND
Comedy
Titania won't give Oberon a servant boy.
This person is in love with Hermia at the end of the play
Lysander
Shakespeare was born in what century?
1500s (specifically 1564)
Name the two groups that opposed the Globe Theater when it was built.
London City Council and the Church
The setting: Town and Country
Athens, Greece
At the beginning of the play, both Demetrius and Lysander are in love with __________.
Hermia
This person is the leader of the actors and assigned actors to parts
How many kids did Shakespeare have?
3
The cost of watching one of Shakespeare's plays ___________ the higher up you sat.
Increased
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows something that the characters DO NOT know.
The item that Puck needs to find in order to enchant the Athenians' eyes.
the "love-in-idleness;" a flower pierced by Cupid's arrow
This person is the only one still under a love spell at the end of the play
Demetrius
In Shakespearan time, who would they cast as women in plays?
Young boys, because only men could act.
The people who stood in the "pit" of the Globe were referred to as ______________________.
Groundlings, stinkards, or penny stinkards
This is the term which refers to a world where characters may go in the middle of a play to escape their "Apollonian duties."
Green World
The actors are going to perform Pyramus and Thisbe for what event?
The royal wedding between Theseus and Hippolyta
This person was forced to marry someone she didn't love at the end of the play
Hippolyta
How were setting, environment, character, and story established?
Through words
The rooms were actors went to wait while they were not on stage, or where they changed costumes
Tiring Rooms
Shakespeare switches from iambic pentameter to regular prose when writing scenes involving the actors. Why?
To highlight the class and intellectual differences between social groups.
What is the climax of the play? The point with the most action, the point after which everything starts to wrap up?
When Hermia and Helena fight and Demetrius and Lysander storm off (in opposite directions) to fight.
This person was assigned the role of "Moon" in Pyramus and Thisbe
Snout
What was the name of one of Shakespeare's sons?
Hamnet
Colored flags advertised what kind of play was going on. What color denotes a comedy?
White