V5 P2 W8 Midsummer Night's Dream

Basic rules
  • We do our work when we should
  • We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
  • Our phone is in our "zakkie" on the corner of our table
  • We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class
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This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

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Basic rules
  • We do our work when we should
  • We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
  • Our phone is in our "zakkie" on the corner of our table
  • We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class

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learning goals
I know the basic plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream

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What is the key characteristic of a comedy (in renaissance times!)

Slide 3 - Open question

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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  • Because there are three main groups of characters, there is no single protagonist in the play; however, Puck is generally considered the most important character.

  • The point of view differs from scene to scene

  • Themes: The difficulties of love; magic; the nature of dreams; the relationships between fantasy and reality and between environment and experience


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Slide 7 - Video

Magical creatures
  • Trolls, Witches, Fairies - 16th-century lore (overlevering)

  • They can be the object of mischief (baldadigheid) or they can sometimes be helpful. 

  • Shakespeare's fairies argue and fight as much, if not more than human beings - and they are not above playing some nasty tricks. 

  • At the beginning of the play, Titania and Oberon are fighting over a changeling boy. This might remind you of stories about fairies kidnapping babies.

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The end of the story
  • This play is full of couples (and some of them are not very happy.)

  • However, in the end, with a bit of help from the fairies, everything is sorted out.

  • But as Puck says when he apologizes to the audience at the end, it is probably best not to take all this too seriously. Perhaps it was all a dream...

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Story lines
In A Midsummer Night's Dream there are four story lines, each focussing on a different social group. 
Here are the four story lines:
1. the Athenian wedding 
2. the young lovers
3. the mechanicals (= de handwerkslieden)
4. the fairies.

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Story lines

The next question is a drag and drop question. 
It asks you to match characters of A Midsummer Night's Dream to their correct social group.

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The Athenian Wedding
The Young Lovers
The Mechanicals 
The Fairies
 Puck
Theseus 
and 
Hyppolyta

Lysander
 
Bottom
the 
Weaver 
Hermia 
Titania and Oberon 
Helena and Demetrius 
Quince and Snug

Slide 12 - Drag question

In Act 1 Scene 2 the Mechanicals with Bottom in the lead come together to stage a play for Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. Which one?
A
All's Well That Ends Well
B
A Midsummer Night's Dream
C
Pyramus and Thisbe
D
Hero and Lysander

Slide 13 - Quiz