AMND Act 1 Quotes Flashcards
Scene 1: Theseus quote about how slow the time is passing
“how slow / This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires
Scene 1: Hippolyta quote about how the time will pass quickly
“Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; / Four nights will quickly dream away the time
Scene 1: Theseus quote about how he got Hippolyta to love him
“Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword, / And won thy love doing thee injuries; / But I will we’d thee in another key, / With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.
Scene 1: Egeus quotes about his accusation of what Lysander has done to Hermia
“Stand forth Lysander. And, my gracious Duke, / This hath bewitch’d the bosom of my child.”
“Turn’d her obedience (which is due to me) / To stubborn harshness”
Scene 1: Egeus’s authority over Hermia as a father quote
Egeus: “I beg the ancient privilege of Athens: / As she is mine, I may dispose of her”
Theseus: “To you your father should be as a God”
Scene 1: What will happen to Hermia if she disobeys her father
Theseus: “Either to die the death, or to abjure / For ever the society of men.”
“Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.”
Scene 1: how Helena feels about Demetrius
Lysander: “Demetrius, I’ll avouch it to his head, / , Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena, / And won her soul: and she, sweet lady, dotes, / Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry / Upon this spotted and inconstant man.”
Scene 1: Lysander quote on love
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Scene 1: Helena complaining about Demetrius’ love for Hermia
“Call you me fair? That fair again unsay! / Demetrius loves your fair (…) Sickness is catching (…) O, teach me how you look, and with what art / You sway the motion of Demetrius’ heart.”
Scene 1: Hermia and Helena discussing Demetrius.
Hermia: “The more I hate, the more he follows me.” / Helena: “The more I love, the more he hateth me.”
Scene 1: Helena’s opinion on love
“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, / And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind”
Scene 2: Bottom on how he will make the audience feel
“If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes: I will / move storms, I will condole in some measure. To the / rest - yet my chief humour is for a tyrant.”
Scene 2: Flute on the character he must play
“Nay, faith, let not me play a woman: I have a beard / coming.”
Scene 2: Snug on his reading
“For I am slow of study”
Scene 2: Quince on Why Bottom shouldn’t play the lion.
“And you should do it too terribly, you would fright / the Duchess and the ladies, that they would all shriek : / and that were enough to hang us all.”
