A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Characters in the Play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Contents
Characters in the Play
Entire Play
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city,…
Act 1, scene 1
Theseus, duke of Athens, is planning the festivities for his upcoming wedding to the newly captured Amazon, Hippolyta. Egeus arrives…
Act 1, scene 2
Six Athenian tradesmen decide to put on a play, called “Pyramus and Thisbe,” for Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. Pyramus will…
Act 2, scene 1
Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, quarrel over possession of a young Indian boy. Oberon orders Robin…
Act 2, scene 2
Oberon anoints Titania’s eyes as she sleeps. A weary Lysander and Hermia enter and fall asleep nearby. Robin, thinking he…
Act 3, scene 1
The tradesmen meet in the woods to rehearse. Robin Goodfellow happens upon them and transforms Bottom’s head into that of…
Act 3, scene 2
Robin Goodfellow reports to Oberon about Titania and Bottom. When Demetrius enters wooing Hermia, Oberon discovers that Robin has anointed…
Act 4, scene 1
Titania and her attendants pamper Bottom, who falls asleep with her. Oberon, watching them, tells Robin that Titania has given…
Act 4, scene 2
The tradesmen regret, for their own sakes and for Bottom’s, the loss of their opportunity to perform the play, since…
Act 5, scene 1
Theseus dismisses as imaginary the lovers’ account of their night’s experience, and then chooses “Pyramus and Thisbe” for the night’s…
Characters in the Play
Hermia
Lysander
Helena
Demetrius
four lovers
Theseus, duke of Athens
Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons
Egeus, father to Hermia
Philostrate, master of the revels to Theseus
Nick Bottom, weaver
Peter Quince, carpenter
Francis Flute, bellows-mender
Tom Snout, tinker
Snug, joiner
Robin Starveling, tailor
Oberon, king of the Fairies
Titania, queen of the Fairies
Robin Goodfellow, a “puck,” or hobgoblin, in Oberon’s service
A Fairy, in the service of Titania
Peaseblossom
Cobweb
Mote
Mustardseed
fairies attending upon Titania
Lords and Attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta
Other Fairies in the trains of Titania and Oberon
