MSND: Key facts

Question 1

Full title

Answer 1

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 2

Author

Answer 2

William Shakepeare

Question 3

Type of work

Answer 3

Play

Question 4

Genres

Answer 4

Confident, fantasy, romance farce

Question 5

Language

Answer 5

English

Question 6

Narrator

Answer 6

None

Question 7

Protagonist

Answer 7

Puck (generally considered the most important character)

Question 8

Setting ( time )

Answer 8

Combines elements of Ancient Greek with elements of Renaissance England

Question 9

Setting ( place )

Answer 9

Athens and the forest outside its walls

Question 10

Tense

Answer 10

Present

Question 11

Foreshadowing

Answer 11

Comments made about difficulties that lovers face

Question 12

Tones

Answer 12

Romantic, comedic, fantastic, satirical, dreamlike, joyful, farcical

Question 13

Symbols

Answer 13

Theseus and Hippolyta represent order’ stability and wakefulness. Theseus’. Oberon’s love potion represents the power and instability of love

Question 14

Themes

Answer 14

The difficulties of love, magic, the nature of dreams, the relationships between fantasy and reality and between environment and experience