A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Characters in the Play

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…