1. AO2: Character and Theme

2. Character
The characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream can be divided into three groups: the Athenian Nobles; the Mechanicals; the Fairies.
These groups remain distinct despite their interactions throughout the play.

4. Productions which use ‘doubling up’:

5. Use your character booklet to add to your notes
Use your character booklet to add to your notes. Collect key quotations for each character as you do so.

6. Theme/ Motif
Using the character booklet as a style template, create a handout for your given theme. It should include:
Notes on the different ways the theme is present/ explored in the play
Any AO3 or AO4 that can be linked
Key quotations
Themes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
Love and marriage
Gender roles and relationships
Theatre and performance (also: imagination and illusion)
Order and disorder (also: dreams and reality; imagination versus reason; illusion versus reality; magic and the supernatural versus the natural, logical world)
Motifs which add to themes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
The moon
Sleep and dreams
Eyes and seeing
Nature and the supernatural