Character A
This ruler of Athens prepares for his upcoming wedding while enforcing the city’s laws
Theseus
This fairy king interferes with human relationships to settle a dispute at home.
Oberon
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
You can endure the livery of a nun, / For aye to be in shady cloister mewed, To live a barren sister all your life,
Speaker- Theses
Context- Act 1 Scene 1
Significance- Theseus is talking about how if Hermia does not want to marry Demetrius, then her other option is to become a nun, wear nun clothes and to never marry or have children.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
And jealous Oberon would have the child/ Knight of his train, to trace the forest wild./ But she perforce withhold the loved boy.
Speaker- "Puck" or Robin Goodfellow
Context- Act 2 Scene 1
Significance- Robin knows Oberon wants the child that Titania has and that he would use the child as a knight in his army. However, Titania will not give up the boy.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
I pray thee, gentle mortal, sign again./ Mine ear is much more enamored of thy note,/ So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape,/And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me/ On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
Speaker- Titania
Context- Act 3 Sc 1
Significance- Titania has fallen in love with Nick Bottom who looks like a donkey. Titania is under the spell of Cupid's Flower and thinks Bottom is the most attractive person she has ever seen and wants him to continue to sing because he is such a beautiful singer.
This fairy enjoys playing tricks and accidentally causes romantic confusion among mortals.
Puck (Robin Goodfellow)
This fairy queen becomes magically infatuated and fiercely protects a young page.
Titania
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
Consent to marry with Demetrius/ I beg the ancient privilege of Athens: / As she is mine, I may dispose of her,
Speaker-Egeus
Context- Act 1, Scene 1
Significance- Egues is talking about how he gives his consent for Hermia to marry Demetrius (his pick). He is also talking about as Hermia is his daughter he can force her to marry Demetrius if not he can enact Athen law to have her killed.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid / Will make or man or woman madly dote / Upon the next living creature that it sees.
Context- Act 2 Sc 1
Significance- The "juice" he is talking about is from the Cupid Flower that when applied to sleeping eyelids, the next things they person sees when they wake up, they fall madly in love with.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
My mistess with a monster is in love,/ Near to her close and consecrated bower
Speaker- Robin Goodfellow or "Puck"
Context-Act 3 Sc 2
Significance- Robin is telling Oberon about how Titania is in love with a mechanic (one of the actors)
This young woman refuses to give up her right to choose her own husband.
Hermia
This character boasts about his talent and eagerly volunteers for the lead role in a play.
Nick Bottom
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
You have her father's love, Demetrius/ Let me have Hermia's. Do you marry him.
Speaker- Lysander
Context- Act 1 Sc 1
Significance- Lysander is talking about how Hermia's father favors Demetrius and thinks so highly of him then Demetrius should marry Hermia's father. So that Lysander can marry Hermia.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
Pard or boar with bristle hair, / In they eye that shall appear/ When thou wak'st it is they dear./ Wake when some vile thing is near.
Speaker- Oberon
Context- Act 2 Scene 2
Significance- Oberon wants Queen Titania to be distracted so he can take the boy and make Titania look bad. He hopes by putting nectar on her eyes she falls in love with a hideous creature.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
You speed your passions on a misprised mood./ I am not guilty of Lysander's blood,/ Not is he dead, for aught that I can tell.
Speaker- Demetrius
Context- Act 3 Sc 2
Significance- Hermia cannot find Lysander in the woods after he ran off chasing Hermia since Lysander is under the spell of Cupid's Flower. Hermia is worried about Lysander and thinks Demetrius killed him because of jealousy (this happens before Lysander gets the nectar in his eyes)
This man believes fathers should control whom their daughters marry.
Egeus
Originally promised to one woman, this man is easily distracted and changes his affections.
Demetrius
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight./ Then to the wood will he tomorrow night / Pursue her.
Speaker- Helena
Context- Act 1 Scene 1
Significance- Helena is planning on telling Demetrius of Hermia's plan to run away with Lysander to get married in the hopes that Demetrius will value this information and start liking her.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
Apollo flied and Daphne holds the chase;/ The dove pursues the griffin.
Speaker- Helena
Context- Act 2 Scene 1
Significance- Helena is comparing her love for Demetrius to that of Apollo and Daphne, where Apollo chased Daphne because he was stuck with a love arrow that made him fall in love with Daphne.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
Then will two at once woo one,/ That must needs be sport alone.? And those things do best please me
Speaker- Robin Goodfellow or "Puck"
Context- Act 3 Sc 2
Significance- Oberon is planning for Puck/ Robin Goodfellow to put nectar in Demeterius eyes in the hopes he also falls in love with Helena so the two men can chance the same woman.
This lover is deeply hurt when the man she adores does not return her feelings.
Helena
This romantic believes love is worth breaking the law and fleeing the city.
Lysander
Act 1 Scene 2 we are introduced to the mechanics (the actors that are putting on a play). What play are they hoping to preform? Who are they hoping to preform it too? What is the main actor's name?
Play- Thisbe and Pyramus, similar to Romeo and Juliet, die for love
Hoping to perform at Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding
Main actor's name, Nick Bottom
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
This flower's force is sitting love, [He sees Lysander] Night and silence? Who is here? / Weeds of Athens doth wear
Speaker- "Puck" or Robin Goodfellow
Context- Act 2 Scene 2
Significance- Robin is about to put the nectar from the Cupid Flower on Lysander's eyes as he sleeps. Robin mistakes Lysander for Demetrius and put the nectar on the wrong Athen's mans' eyes.
For the following quote identify the speaker, context and significance of the quote.
I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;/ And then I will her charmed eye release/ From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.
Speaker- Oberon
Context- Act 3 Sc 2
Significance- Plotting to get the boy away from Titania and once they do that then order will be restored and Titania will then no longer be in love with Bottom.