Mid-Summer Night’s Dreams
1. Read Mid-Summer Night’s Dream on our Library Guide.
Then, respond to the following questions:
1) Describe the relationship between King Theseus and Queen Hippolyta in the opening scene. How did they meet? How does their impending marriage promise to be happy?
2) Characterize Nick Bottom. What aspects of his behavior and personality make him comic?
3) Are the supernatural lovers, Oberon and Titania, characterized differently than their mortal counterparts? How are they similar to the aristocratic lovers and how are they different from them?
4) In what ways is Puck the unifying character of the play? How do his actions touch on every plot and sub plot?