In the following lessons, you will read and study the classic Shakespearean play A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
You will answer questions and learn about this play’s key elements.
You will play game quizzes reviewing this play’s content.
You will complete a 3 minute timed quiz after each lesson.
Finally, you will complete a 30 minute timed quiz assessing your acquired learning for this course.
Play elements in a ‘nut-shell’…
Plot: love relationships between humans and ‘fairies’ can be fleeting and quirky at times
Setting: in the Greek city of Athens and it’s surrounding forest
Themes: love, passion, hate, violence, misfortune, adversity, strife
Major Characters
Theseus: the capable benevolent leader Duke of Athens soon to be married to Queen Hippolyta
Hippolyta: able and warmhearted Queen of the Amazon engaged to Theseus
Egeus: stringent King of Athens and Hermia’s father who orders her to marry Demetrius
Hermia: audacious and forthright daughter of Egeus, friend of Helena in love with Lysander
Lysander: courageously in love with Hermia but magically induced to love an unknowing Helena
Demetrius: capricious self-indulgent suitor to Hermia magically induced to love an unknowing Helena
Helena: Hermia’s lifelong deceitful and frustrated friend in love with Demetrius confusingly pursued by spell-bounded Demetrius and Lysander
Robin “Puck” Goodfellow: a mischievous fun loving fairy with magical powers who frivolously ‘misuses’ magic love-dust on Lysander, Demetrius and Tatiana
Oberon: the forceful king of the fairies, angry with his wife Tatiana, ordering Puck to use magic love-dust on Demetrius and Tatiana
Titania: Queen of the Fairies has marital issues with Oberon induced to ridiculously fall in love with a donkey-headed Nick Bottom
Nick Bottom: a comically presumptuous weaver by trade and victim of Puck’s spell to ‘spurn’ Tatiana
