Midsummer Night's Dream Flashcards
who is egeus?
Hermia’s father
what is the name of the Duke?
Theseus
who is Theseus’ wife?
Hippolyta
who is Hippolyta
wife of Theseus, queen of Amazons
who is philostrate?
master of revels to the Athenian court (lowkey idk when he appears)
who is Hermia? who is she in love with?
daughter of egeus, in ove with Lysander
who is Lysander? who is he in love with?
in love w hermia
who is Demetrius? who is he in love with?
in love w hermia, egeus’ choice as a husband for hermia
who is Helena? who is she in love with?
in love with Demetrius
who is nick bottom?
a weaver who plays Pyramus
who is peter quince?
a caarpenter who speaks the prologue
who is Francis Flute?
a bellows-mender (repairs bellows, which are mechanical air pumps that blow air into furnaces) who plays Thisbe
who is Tom Snout?
a TInker (to travel around and repair household items, such as pots and pans, using metalworking skills) who plays Wall
who is Robin Starveling?
a tailor who plays moonshine
who is Snug?
a joiner (creates and installs wooden structures, fittings, and furniture for buildings) who plays Lion
what is Puck’s other name?
Robin Goodfellow
name all of Titania’s fairies
peaseblossom, cobweb, moth, mustardseed
summarise act 1 scene 1
- Theseus and Hippolyta talk about their impending wedding - can’t wait, themes of patriarchy, conflict fo sexes, theme of love established, motif of moon
- introduction of arranged marriage between H and D
- images fo sterility and infertility used by Theseus
- theseus talks to Hermia
- bit of confrontation between D and L
- H and L decide to run away - love is refrenced as a chaotic force and it is temporary, use of stychomythia, anphora to build intensity
- H tells Helena that they are running away - stychomythia about Demetrius
- helena’s soliloquy about jealousy and love for demetrius
who is Phoebe?
another name for the goddess Diana (moon)
what is stychomythia?
2 characters alternate lines of verse (usually in an argument) to show they are of one mind, close
what is anapohora?
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses/ in this case lines?
who is the carthage queen? why is this used?
dido - a story of betrayed unrequited love. it is used by Hermia to remind Lysander of the darker side of love and is an implied threat
who is venus the goddess of ?
love
what did the moon signify in Elizabethan times?
the area betweent the moon and earth (sublunary world) was imperfect, unstable. hence, death, decay can’t eb avoided on earth and love proves to be impermanent and unreliable
- as a symbol of inconsistency and imperfection, the moon is relevant to rapidly changing alliegences of Demetrius and Lysander