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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Study Guide

Focus: Love Square & The Mechanicals’ Play

💘 Part 1: The Love Square – Who Loves Who?

🌿 Main Characters:

🔀 What Happens:

• Hermia and Lysander plan to secretly run away and marry in the woods.

• Egeus, Hermia’s father, wants her to marry Demetrius, and brings her before Theseus, the Duke of Athens.

• Theseus gives Hermia three choices:

  1. Marry Demetrius

  2. Become a nun

  3. Be executed

• Helena, jealous of Hermia, tells Demetrius about their plan in hopes of winning his love.

• All four end up in the forest, where fairy magic causes more confusion.

🎭 Part 2: The Mechanicals’ Play – “Pyramus and Thisbe”

🎬 Characters & Roles:

📝 About the Play:

• The mechanicals prepare a tragic love story called “Pyramus and Thisbe.”

• It’s about two lovers who are separated by a wall and tragically die.

• The story is meant to be serious, but the mechanicals’ bad acting makes it hilarious.