THE ATHENIANS
LOST IN THE WOODS
BOTTOM & CO.
CHARACTERIZATION
AND MEMORABLE PHRASES
VERSE, PROSE, & BEYOND
100

HIPPOLYTA IS (OR WAS, BEFORE HER MARRIAGE) THE QUEEN OF THIS TRIBE OF WARRIOR WOMEN

WHO ARE THE AMAZONS?

100

THE CHARACTER KNOWN AS ROBIN GOODFELLOW IS ALTERNATELY CALLED THIS ONE-SYLLABLE NAME

WHAT IS PUCK?

100

BOTTOM PLAYS THIS ROMANTIC HERO IN THE PLAY THEY'RE REHEARSING FOR THE DUKE'S WEDDING

WHO IS PYRAMUS?

100

"NO, NO" LAMENTS HELENA, "I AM AS UGLY AS" THIS CREATURE

WHAT IS A BEAR?

100

"O WHY REBUKE YOU HIM THAT LOVES YOU SO? / LAY BREATH SO BITTER ON YOUR BITTER FOE," SAYS DEMETRIUS, IN AN EXAMPLE OF THESE KIND OF COUPLETS

WHAT ARE HEROIC COUPLETS?

200

THIS RELATIVE OF LYSANDER'S LIVES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FOREST FROM ATHENS

WHO IS HIS AUNT?

200
THE WOODS NEAR ATHENS ARE NOT THE MAIN "HABITAT" OF TITANIA & OBERON-- RATHER, THEY COME FROM THIS PART OF THE WORLD

WHAT IS INDIA?

200

THIS PROFESSION IS BOTTOM'S DAY JOB

WHAT IS A WEAVER?

200

"NOT HERMIA BUT HELENA I LOVE," RHYMES LYSANDER; "WHO WILL NOT CHANGE" THIS BIRD "FOR A DOVE?

WHAT IS A RAVEN?

200

EXPRESSING HER DESIRE TO LOOK MORE LIKE HERMIA, HELENA SAYS, "THE REST I'D GIVE TO BE TO YOU TRANSLATED" -- A LINE THAT INCLUDES THIS KIND OF EXTRA SYLLABLE

WHAT IS A FEMININE ENDING?

300

THESEUS AND HIPPOLYTA ARE PLANNING TO GET MARRIED WHEN THIS APPEARS IN THE SKY

WHAT IS THE NEW MOON?

300

OBERON'S FAMOUS SPEECH "I KNOW A BANK WHERE THE WILD THYME BLOWS, / WHERE OXLIPS AND THE NODDING VIOLET GROWS..." IS ABOUT THIS CHARACTER'S FAVORITE SPOT TO NAP

WHO IS TITANIA?

300

IN THE PLAY THEY'RE REHEARSING, THISBE IS PLAYED BY THIS ONE OF BOTTOM'S COMPADRES

WHO IS FLUTE?

300
"I AM YOUR" THIS KIND OF DOG, PLEADS HELENA TO DEMETRIUS; "THE MORE YOU BEAT ME, I WILL FAWN ON YOU"

WHAT IS A SPANIEL?

300

TO SHOW OFF HIS POETIC CHOPS, BOTTOM RECITES: "AND PHIBBUS' CAR / SHALL SHINE FROM FAR / AND MAKE AND MAR / THE FOOLISH FATES," AN EXAMPLE OF THIS METER

WHAT IS IAMBIC DIMETER?

400

IF HERMIA REFUSES TO MARRY DEMETRIUS, THESEUS STIPULATES SHE MUST BECOME A NUN DEVOTED TO THIS GREEK GODDESS OF CHASTITY

WHO IS DIANA?

400

AS LYSANDER ABANDONS HER WHILE SHE IS SLEEPING (II.ii), HERMIA HAS A NIGHTMARE ABOUT BEING ATTACKED BY THIS KIND OF CREATURE

WHAT IS A SNAKE?

400

SNUG, WHO PLAYS THE LION, IS A JOINER, MEANING HE DOES THIS KIND OF WORK

WHAT IS CARPENTRY?

400

ROBIN FAMOUSLY GIVES THIS NAME, MEANING 'MANUAL LABORERS,' TO BOTTOM, QUINCE, AND THEIR TROUPE:

"A CREW OF PATCHES, RUDE __________S"

WHAT ARE MECHANICALS?

400

"BUT SHE, BEING MORTAL, OF THAT BOY DID DIE / AND FOR HER SAKE I DO REAR UP HER BOY / AND FOR HER SAKE I WILL NOT PART WITH HIM," DECLAIMS TITANIA IN AN EXAMPLE OF THIS KIND OF VERSE

WHAT IS BLANK VERSE?

500

THIS MAN IS THESEUS'S "MASTER OF REVELS" -- THAT IS, THE GUY IN CHARGE OF ARRANGING THE WEDDING PARTY

WHO IS PHILOSTRATE?

500

OBERON RECALLS THAT THE MAGIC FLOWER WHICH CAUSES INFATUATION AT FIRST SIGHT HAS THIS HYPHENATED NAME

WHAT IS LOVE-IN-IDLENESS?

500

PETER QUINCE GIVES HIS TROUPE OF ACTORS THIS LONG TO MEMORIZE THEIR PARTS FOR THE PLAY

WHAT IS ONE DAY & NIGHT?

500

HELENA IS THE DAUGHTER OF THIS MAN, MENTIONED BY LYSANDER IN ACT I, SCENE I

WHO IS NEDAR?

500

THIS IS THE ONLY GROUP OF CHARACTERS THAT NEVER SPEAKS IN VERSE

WHO ARE BOTTOM & CO.?

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