Who's Who?
This Duke of Athens is preparing to marry Hippolyta.
Who is Theseus?
The play’s action takes place in two main locations: the city of Athens and this magical place referred to as ____________
What are the woods (or the forest)?
This King of the Fairies is in a major argument with Queen Titania
Who is Oberon?
This term refers to a speech where a character is alone on stage speaking their thoughts aloud to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
When Puck transforms Bottom, he gives him the head of this animal.
What is a donkey
She is the daughter of Egeus and is in love with Lysander.
Who is Hermia?
Egeus brings his daughter to the Duke because she refuses to marry this man.
Who is Demetrius?
This mischievous sprite, also known as Robin Goodfellow, serves as Oberon’s assistant.
Who is Puck?
Lysander famously tells Hermia, "The course of true love never did run ____".
What is smooth?
According to Theseus, if Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, she must either face death or "abjure" society by becoming this
What is a nun?
This weaver is the "star" of the workmen's play and constantly tries to take over every role.
Who is Nick Bottom?
Lysander and Hermia plan to meet in the woods to run away to the house of this relative.
Who is Lysander's aunt?
Oberon sends Puck to find a special flower that would _________________
What is make you fall madly in love with the first creature you see
This 10-syllable rhythm (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM) is often used in Shakespeare's poetry.
What is iambic pentameter?
Titania commands her fairies to wait on Bottom and bring him treats. Name at least two of these four fairies.
Who are Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed?
She is Hermia's friend who is in love with Demetrius, even though he initially pursues Hermia.
Who is Helena?
This is the name of the "lamentable comedy" the workmen are rehearsing.
What is "The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe"?
Titania is keeping this person, which is the main reason for her fight with Oberon.
Who is the changeling boy (or Indian boy)?
Puck calls the workmen "hempen ____," a term meaning fools or simple people from the country.
What are home-spuns?
Snug the joiner asks Peter Quince for the lion’s script early because he is "slow of study," only to find out his entire part consists of doing this thing.
What is roaring?
He is the carpenter who leads the group of workmen and directs their play.
Who is Peter Quince?
Theseus gives Hermia this many days to decide if she will obey her father before the next new moon.
What is four days?
Puck boasts that he can put a "girdle round about the earth" in this many minutes.
What is forty minutes?
This vocabulary word, used by Titania to describe the boy's mother, means "human" or "subject to death"
What is mortal?
At the very end of the play, Puck suggests that if the audience was offended or didn't like the performance, they should think of it as nothing more than this.
A dream