Midsummer Night's Dream
In Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lysander and Hermia are in love with each other, but her father, Egeus, has other wishes, to have her marry Demetrius, if she does not she will vow to become a nun or be killed. But like most young couples who’s parents didn’t approve of their child’s dating material, they of course go against him, Lysander has the idea for him and Hermia to meet in the forest so they can run away to Lysander’s aunt’s house where they wouldn’t have to worry about Hermia’s father. On another note, Helena, a childhood friend of Hermia, is in love with Demetrius, who, like Lysander is in love with Hermia. Though Helena and Demetrius both have had a nightly “prior engagement” ...
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a part in a contest that, if they win, each will get paid every day for the rest of their lives. As the names are called, one specific character, Bottom, sticks out like a sore thumb, asking and waning to play every single role in the play, but his character will be Pyramus, the lover of Thisbe, who is played by Flute. Flute tries to get out of the role complains that he has a beard growing just to get out of the character, but fails at the attempt. Bottom of course jumps at the idea of another character role, but he also fails at the attempt, and they are both stuck in their parts for the play. Still, that doesn’t stop Bottom from jumping at the word of the part with the lion, and in turn Peter Quince tells him that if he were to play the lion, he would scare the women out of their wits and would have no other choices but to be hung.
After the discussion of the part Peter Quince and everybody agree to meet and rehearse the parts for the royals for the ...
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