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Easy moonlight scenery drawing8/31/2023 ![]() He instructs Puck to retrieve the flower with the hope that he might make Titania fall in love with an animal of the forest and thereby shame her into giving up the little Indian boy. When the concoction is applied to the eyelids of a sleeping person, that person, upon waking, falls in love with the first living thing they perceive. He calls upon Robin " Puck" Goodfellow, his "shrewd and knavish sprite", to help him concoct a magical juice derived from a flower called " love-in-idleness", which turns from white to purple when struck by Cupid's arrow. Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian changeling to Oberon for use as his "knight" or "henchman", since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers. Titania tells Oberon that she plans to stay there until she has attended Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. In a parallel plot line, Oberon, king of the fairies, and Titania, his queen, have come to the forest outside Athens. Quince assures Snug that the role of the lion is "nothing but roaring." Quince then ends the meeting telling his actors "at the Duke's oak we meet".Īct 2 Act 2 Scene 1 The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania by Joseph Noel Paton, 1849 Snug remarks that he needs the Lion's part because he is "slow of study". ![]() Bottom is told by Quince that he would do the Lion so terribly as to frighten the duchess and ladies enough for the Duke and Lords to have the players hanged. Bottom would also rather be a tyrant and recites some lines of Ercles. Quince insists that Bottom can only play the role of Pyramus. Nick Bottom, who is playing the main role of Pyramus, is over-enthusiastic and wants to dominate others by suggesting himself for the characters of Thisbe, the Lion, and Pyramus at the same time. Quince reads the names of characters and bestows them on the players. The mechanicals, Peter Quince and fellow players Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Robin Starveling, Tom Snout and Snug plan to put on a play for the wedding of the Duke and the Queen, "the most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe". Desperate to reclaim Demetrius's love, Helena tells Demetrius about the plan and he follows them in hopes of finding Hermia. Hermia tells their plans to Helena, her best friend, who pines unrequitedly for Demetrius, who broke up with her to be with Hermia. Theseus offers her another choice: lifelong chastity as a nun worshipping the goddess Diana, but the two lovers both deny his choice and make a secret plan to escape into the forest for Lysander's aunt's house, in order to run away from Theseus. Enraged, Egeus invokes an ancient Athenian law before Duke Theseus, whereby a daughter needs to marry a suitor chosen by her father, or else face death. Theseus is confronted by Egeus and his daughter Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistant to her father's demand that she marry Demetrius, whom he has arranged for her to marry. Theseus is not happy about how long he has to wait while Hippolyta thinks it will pass by like a dream. The play opens with Theseus and Hippolyta who are four days away from their wedding. The play consists of five interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which are set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon. ![]() ![]() Plot Hermia and Helena by Washington Allston, 1818 Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustardseed-fairy servants to Titania. ![]()
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