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SETTING OF TIME IN MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S
DREAM BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

2. synopsis
Theseus and Hippolyta are planning their wedding festival when Egeus, an
Athenian nobleman, enters the scene, followed by his daughter Hermia.
Theseus wants Hermia to marry a young Athenian nobleman named
Demetrius, but she refuses. Hermia flees into the woods with her true love,
Lysander.Helena, determined to win Demetrius' love for herself, tells him
about Hermia's plan to elope with Lysander. He immediately goes looking
for Hermia in the woods. Meanwhile, Oberon quarrels with his wife
Titania, the Fairy Queen. Oberon sends the mischievous Puck to sprinkle a
love potion on Titania

3. On the way, Puck decides to have some fun and cast a spell on
Lysander and Demetrius. Puck's spell causes both Lysander
and Demetrius to fall for Helena. A betrayed Hermia chases
Helena while the men fight. Under the influence of the love
potion, Titania falls for Nick Bottom, an actor with a donkey's
head.Chaos ensues, and the play becomes a comedy of errors.
Finally, King Oberon removes the enchantments from all but
Demetrius, who's still in love with Helena. Duke Theseus and
Hippolyta share their wedding festival with the newly matched
lovers.

4. Biography William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He wrote
37 plays and two long poems in his lifetime. He lived in Stratford-upon-
Avon, in Warwickshire, England. His plays are still performed today. By
1594 he was an His plays are of different kinds, or genres. There are
histories, tragedies and comedies. These plays are among the best known in
English literature and are studied in schools around the world. Shakespeare
wrote his works between about 1590 and 1613. He is considered the first
writer who wrote a tragicomedy. (A tragicomedy is a play that mixes
comedy and tragedy, with a happy ending.)

5. Discussion
The two locations of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's
Dream' are essential to the development of the plot,
although their presentation relies wholly on the characters
we meet there, their adventures and their descriptions of
these places. Athens is not an accidental choice of location:
although much of the detail of the play is quintessentially
English, the classical setting enables Shakespeare to
introduce the notable lawgiver, who has had his own
problems in love; it makes plausible the reference to the
severe law, and it allows Oberon to refer seriously to Cupid
and Diana without the play's seeming blasphemous.

6. Theseus is an enlightened ruler, notable for his wise judgement
but there is a limit to his abilities: the problem Egeus gives
him seems incapable of solution, so he tries to buy time and
work on Egeus and Demetrius. But there seems little hope that
the "harsh Athenian law" will produce a solution acceptable to
all parties.

7. The wood is mentioned first by Lysander, who has been there with
Hermia and Helena on May Day, and in the following scene by Bottom.
Neither seems to have any inkling of what they may meet there. The wood
may be unremarkable in the daytime but at night it is a place of danger and
confusion. The young lovers experience the confusion but do not know its
cause. The mechanicals go to the Palace Wood because they wish to
rehearse unseen, little knowing that the wood is full of spirits (not to
mention the four young lovers).
Lysander's literal losing of his way anticipates his metaphorical losing of
his way, in pursuing the wrong woman. Demetrius speaks to Helena in a
manner no gentleman would care to use ...

8. This some act that explained for setting time
Act 1, Scene 1
Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, and PHILOSTRATE,
with others
THESEUS and HIPPOLYTA enter
withPHILOSTRATE and others.
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THESEUS
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in
Another moon. But oh, methinks how slow
This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,
Like to a stepdame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man’s revenue
HIPPOLYTA
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night.
Four nights will quickly dream away the time.
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.
From this act we can see that in there is explained

9. ROBIN
The king doth keep his revels here tonight.
Take heed the queen come not within his sight.
For Oberon is passing fell and wrath
Because that she, as her attendant hath
A lovely boy stolen from an Indian king.
She never had so sweet a changeling.
And jealous Oberon would have the child
Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild.
But she perforce withholds the lovèd boy,
Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her joy
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There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.
And there the snake throws her enameled skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.
And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes
And make her full of hateful fantasies.
(gives ROBIN some of the flower)
Take thou some of it and seek through this grove:
A sweet Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes.
But do it when the next thing he espies
May be the lady. Thou shalt know the man
By the Athenian garments he hath on.
Effect it with some care, that he may prove
More fond on her than she upon her love.
And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow
This act explained that Titania slept in the night

10. Conclussion
The play opens in Athens. We see how the young lovers and
the mechanicals leave (for different reasons) this known and
familiar place and enter the wood. This is the proper domain of
the fairies, and no place for men, who enter at their peril. In
the symmetry of the play, we see this process reversed in Act
5. Here the fairies come into Athens into the home of Theseus.
But they are in no danger, not even of discovery. While they
can promote the general fertility of the natural world in the
wood, the importance of Theseus and Hippolyta requires a
more direct overseeing of the conception of their heir