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Lecture 2 of my theatre notes, Lecture notes of Theatre

Lecture 1 of my theatre notes from 2023

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Shakespeare - Main Terms Of A Midsummer’s Night Dream
- Status Quo: Athens Arranged Marriage with Hippolyta & Hermia
- Catalysts: Runaway to the woods
- Turning Points Act 2: “Fairy War” “Jealousy” ‘Helena “Love me please” “Dose
Demitrius”
- Protagonist: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, & the Mechanicals
- Antagonist: Egeus, Theseus, Robin (Puck)
- Themes:
a. Act 1: Arranged Marriage
b. Patriarchy
c. Obedience
d. Love Rebellion
e. Act 2: Jealousy
f. Love
g. Drug
- Ideas:
a. Patronage - When a wealthy powerful person supports an artist. (Shakespeare was
supported by King James).
b. Cliche - How People In Love Really Behave.
c. Star Crossed Lovers - Interfering with love isn’t a good idea.
d. Fickleness Illogical
Shakespeare - A Midsummer’s Night Dream Act 2
- Scene 1:
- We meet fairies and there’s a fair war going on between Oberon & Titania. The fairy
meets Robin Goodfellow who’s the king’s jester.
- Oberon & Titania meet and talk about how Oberon had an affair with Hipppolyta and
how Titania had an affair with Theseus.
- The natural world is out of whack because of their fight. Titania doesn’t want to give up
the little boy because she was close with his mom since she was a worshiper. He wants
the boy.
- Oberon decides to get revenge and how cupid shot his arrow with a flower. Then he tells
Robin to get the flower, put it in his eyes, make her fall in love with an animal, and take
the boy. It’s about humiliation.
- Oberon goes invisible & hears the convo between Demetrius & Helena. Demetrius wants
nothing to do with Helena but she loves him. “Love is in the mind not the eye”
- Oberon tells Robin to put the flower in Demetrius’s eyes because she deserves love.
- Scene 2:
- Fairies put a spell on Titania to stay safe, but Oberon puts the flower juice in her eyes.
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Shakespeare - Main Terms Of A Midsummer’s Night Dream

  • Status Quo: Athens Arranged Marriage with Hippolyta & Hermia
  • Catalysts: Runaway to the woods
  • Turning Points Act 2: “Fairy War” “Jealousy” ‘Helena “Love me please” “Dose Demitrius”
  • Protagonist: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, & the Mechanicals
  • Antagonist: Egeus, Theseus, Robin (Puck)
  • Themes: a. Act 1: Arranged Marriage b. Patriarchy c. Obedience d. Love Rebellion e. Act 2: Jealousy f. Love g. Drug
  • Ideas: a. Patronage - When a wealthy powerful person supports an artist. (Shakespeare was supported by King James). b. Cliche - How People In Love Really Behave. c. Star Crossed Lovers - Interfering with love isn’t a good idea. d. Fickleness Illogical

Shakespeare - A Midsummer’s Night Dream Act 2

  • Scene 1:
  • We meet fairies and there’s a fair war going on between Oberon & Titania. The fairy meets Robin Goodfellow who’s the king’s jester.
  • Oberon & Titania meet and talk about how Oberon had an affair with Hipppolyta and how Titania had an affair with Theseus.
  • The natural world is out of whack because of their fight. Titania doesn’t want to give up the little boy because she was close with his mom since she was a worshiper. He wants the boy.
  • Oberon decides to get revenge and how cupid shot his arrow with a flower. Then he tells Robin to get the flower, put it in his eyes, make her fall in love with an animal, and take the boy. It’s about humiliation.
  • Oberon goes invisible & hears the convo between Demetrius & Helena. Demetrius wants nothing to do with Helena but she loves him. “Love is in the mind not the eye”
  • Oberon tells Robin to put the flower in Demetrius’s eyes because she deserves love.
  • Scene 2:
  • Fairies put a spell on Titania to stay safe, but Oberon puts the flower juice in her eyes.
  • Lysander & Hermia sleep in the woods because they get tired. Lysander wants sex but Hermia wants to be officially married.
  • Puck (Robin) puts flower juice in Lysander’s eyes because Oberon isn’t specific on which Athenian man. Coincidentally Demetrius and Helena come near Lysander & Hermia. Hermia gives a soliloquy when she notices Lysnader and wakes him up.
  • Lysander falls in love with Helena. Helena doesn’t believe Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia in the woods.

Shakespeare - A Midsummer’s Night Dream Act 3

  • Scene 1:
  • The mechanicals are in the woods and they’re practicing the play. They’re nervous the ladies are going to believe nobody is going to get hurt.
  • They decide on prologues to give trigger warnings.
  • Puck puts a donkey headed man on Nick Bottom.
  • The mechanicals run away and Titania falls in love with Nick Bottom.
  • Titania’s servants take care of Nick Bottom.
  • I don’t think you’ve got much of a reason to love me. But to tell you the truth, reason and love have very little to do with each other these days.