1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2. Meeting William Shakespeare
Lived in London in the 16th Century
Wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets
His plays were performed in the Globe theatre
‘Coined’ many expressions that we still use today! Have you ever used one of these?
I have not slept one wink
He’s eaten me out of house and home
All’s well that ends well
That’s the short and long of it
What’s mine is yours and what’s yours is mine
A fool’s paradise
All corners of the world
All of a sudden
As dead as a doornail
Good riddance
Love is blind
“He was not of an age, but for all time.”
-Ben Jonson, poet and contemporary of Shakespeare

3. This play is about… A man with a donkey head.. Love mischief
Other worlds
This play is about…

4. Unrequited love – what is it?
It’s also about….
Unrequited love – what is it?

5. This play takes place in the woods outside of Athens- in a place called Fairyland, under the light of the moon

6. Wait! What’s Midsummer?!
Midsummer Eve, the Vigil of St. John the Baptist, June 23, was traditionally a time of magic, when spirits supposedly walked abroad and played their tricks upon mortals. It was a time for certain traditional rites, such as the burning of bonfires, which go back to the fertility celebrations of pre-Christian Britain. By power of certain magical charms, maidens on Midsummer Eve might have dreams of who their true loves were to be.

8. In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to follow
Theseus is the Duke of Athens.
In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to follow
her father Egeus's instructions for her
to marry his chosen man, Demetrius.
At that time in Athens, Theseus has
passed a law where daughters in Athens
must marry the man chosen by their
fathers, or else face death.
Theseus does not want this young girl to die, and offers her another choice, to become a nun.

9. But Hermia does not love Demetrius because she loves Lysander.
Hermia and Lysander decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night.
Hermia tells her friend Helena, but what Hermia doesn’t know is that Helena secretly has a crush on Demetrius

10. After finding out that Hermia loves Lysander, Helena decides to win back Demetrius by revealing the plan to him. Hermia and Lysander run away into the woods where they can escape the law and get married, and Helena closely follows them

11. Hermia
Demetrius
Lysander
Helena

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