History Lessons
The year Shakespeare was born.
1564
The name of the following rhyme scheme: Captain of our fairy band, / Helena is here at hand.
Rhyming Couplet
The job title given to someone who writes plays
Playwright
List one specific example for the theme of Unrequited Love
Helena's love for Demetrius in the beginning, Lysander's love for Helena and Hermia's love for Lysander after the magic flower is used on Lysander, etc.
What the Elizabethans believed would chase away the ghosts and spirits who wandered around at night.
The sun
The disease that wreaked havoc during Shakespeare's time
The Bubonic/Black Plague
The style of writing that the Mechanicals speak in for the majority of the play.
Prose
The name of a noble who provides financial support to actors and other artists. Ex: King James I for Shakespeare
Patron
List one specific example for the theme of Magic and Transformations
Bottom's head getting transformed by Puck, Lysander falling in love with Helena, Titania falling in love with Bottom, etc.
The main difference in an Elizabethan comedy and tragedy.
Comedies end in a wedding, Tragedies end in a death
The year Shakespeare died.
1616
The name of the meter Shakespeare liked to write in
Iambic Pentameter
Name a word invented by Shakespeare
Alligator, Bedroom, downstairs, eyeball, fashionable, gossip, hurry, lonely, puppy dog, skim milk, traditional, undress, worthless, etc.
List one specific example for the theme of Power and Control.
Egeus having control over his daughter Hermia and making her marry Demetrius, Quince controlling the rest of the Mechanicals as the director of the play and forcing Bottom to only take one part, etc.
The more specific definition of a motif (not a mini-theme)
A repeated pattern that comes back again and again in a story
The two British monarchs that enjoyed Shakespeare's plays
Queen Elizabeth I and King James I
The status of a character who speaks in rhyme and/or meter compared to a character that speaks only in prose.
Higher, A noble to a commoner
A use for cobweb back in Shakespeare's day
It could be used as a bandage to stop bleeding
List one specific example for the motif of the Moon
Quince saying that they will meet under the moonlight to rehearse the play, Oberon greeting Titania under the moonlight, Theseus complaining that there are too many moons until his wedding day, etc.
List one reason that doubling occurs in the play.
It is tradition, it compares and contrasts the characters of the Fairies and the Athenian Court, it adds a dream-like quality to the play, it makes the Fairies seem like a projection from the Athenian Court's mind
The special occasion that A Midsummer Night's Dream was written for.
The wedding of Queen Elizabeth I's goddaughter
The purpose of the fairies speaking in rhyme so often.
To make them seem otherworldly and magical, To mark them as different from the mortals
True or False: The Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream are more like ancient fairies than modern fairies. Why?
Can be true or false depending on the explanation.
List one specific example for the motif of Eyes.
Hermia saying she wishes her father would look at Lysander with her eyes, Helena saying that love looks with the mind and not with the eyes, etc.
True or False: Thou was the informal version of You.
True