A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare-Speak
Write in modern language what Shakespeare meant
when he wrote each phrase.
1. “Our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four happy days
bring in another moon.”
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2. “O spite! Too old to be engaged to young.”
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QUIZ
Draw a line from the characters’ names to their description.
1. A jester; a mischievous fairy
who takes joy in playing pranks Lysander
Demetrius loves your fair.” on humans.
2. King of the fairies. Married to
__________________________________________ Titania. He sends Puck to get the Helena
love-potion that creates havoc.
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(because of a love potion) falls for Hermia
4. “How happy some o’er other some can be!” Nick Bottom, who temporarily has
the head of a donkey.
__________________________________________ 4. Young man from Athens, who
Puck
is in love with Hermia, but cannot
marry her because her father
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Demetrius
5. “Oh, why rebuke you him that loves you so?
Hermia at the play’s start, then in love
Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.” with Helena. Persues Helena obsessively.
6. Young woman in love with Oberon
__________________________________________ Lysander. Egeus’s daughter.
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love with Demetrius. Believes Titania
that she is not beautiful.
loves you so much? Use that kind of mean language for your worst enemy. Quiz Answers: 1. Puck 2. Oberon 3. Titania 4. Lysander 5. Demetrius 6. Hermia 7. Helena
you just say I was “pretty”? Take it back. You’re the pretty one. Demetrius loves your beauty. 4. It’s astonishing how much happier some people are than others! 5. Why be rude to a man who
Shakspeare-Speak Answers: 1. Our wedding day is coming soon. We’ll be married in four days, on the night of the new moon. 2. How awful! Being too old to marry someone young. 3. Did
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
Who Said It?
From this list of characters, write who said each quote.
Hermia Helena Puck Oberon
Demetrius Titania
1. “I do entreat your grace to pardon me.
I know not by what power I am made bold.”
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2. “Call you me ‘fair’? That ‘fair’ again unsay.
Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!
Your eyes are lodestars, and your tongue’s sweet air.”
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3. “I am that merry wanderer of the night. 8. “I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile Mine ear is much enamored of thy note.”
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.” _________________________________________
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9. “Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.”
4. “Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.” _________________________________________
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10. “Take comfort. He no more shall see my face.
5. “For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne, Lysander and myself will fly this place.”
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine.”
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11. “So should the murdered look, and so should I,
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty.
6. “I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,
And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.” As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.”
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7. “The wildest hath not such a heart as you. 12. “Out, dog! Out, cur! Thou drivest me past the bounds.”
Run when you will, the story shall be changed.”
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12. Hermia 11. Demetrias 10. Hermia 9. Titania 8. Titania 7. Helena 6. Demetrius 5. Helena 4. Oberon 3. Puck 2. Helena Answers: 11. Hermia
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