A Midsummer Night

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A Midsummer Nights Dream
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1. William Shakespeare wrote this story.
2. The play has three parts to it the story of the
   humans, the story about the fairies and the story
   of the workers.
3. The story is about magic and confusion.

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The Characters

• The fairies
• Oberon King of the fairies
• Titania Queen of the fairies
• Robin Goodfellow (he is also called Puck)
  Oberons servant

• The workers
• Nick Bottom
• Peter Quince
• Francis Flute
• Robin Starveling
• Tom Snout
• Snug

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The Plot

1. Titania and Oberon are fighting. They have found
   a small boy and each fairy wants him to be their
   servant. Titania has the boy but Oberon wants
   him.
2. Oberon is very angry with Titania and sends Puck
   to go and fetch a small flower. This magic flower
   has a special juice which can make somebody fall
   in love with the first thing they see.

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• 3) That night, when Titania goes to sleep Oberon
  squeezes some of the magic flower juice into her
  eyes. When she wakes up she will fall in love
  with the first thing she sees.
• 4) At the same time, there are a group of workers
  who are rehearsing a play they are going to
  perform at the Duke of Athens wedding. Without
  realising, they were rehearsing right next to the
  sleeping Titania.
• 5) Puck saw how close they were and wanted to
  play another trick. He used magic to turn Nick
  Bottoms head into the head of a donkey. Nick
  Bottom did not realise and was confused when all
  his friends ran away screaming!

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• 6) Nick Bottom thought all his friends were
  playing a trick on him. He started walking around
  the woods pretending he was not scared.
• 7) Puck wanted to play even more tricks and
  pushed Nick Bottom to where Titania was sleeping.
• 8) When Titania awoke, the first thing she saw
  was Nick Bottom with the head of a donkey!
  Instantly she fell in love with him.
• 9) Titania ordered all her fairy servants to make
  Nick Bottom happy. They brought him the best food
  and drink. He was very pleased.

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• 10) Oberon waited a few hours for Titania to fall
  asleep again. He put the antidote to the magic
  flower juice on her eyes. This meant that when
  she woke up, she would no longer love Nick Bottom
  and it would be like a dream.
• 11) When Titania woke up, she saw Nick Bottom as
  a donkey and screamed! She was very embarrassed
  that everyone had seen her fall in love with a
  donkey.
• 12) Titania was so upset with herself for looking
  like a fool that she promised Oberon that he
  could have the small boy as his servant.

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• 13) Puck restored Nick Bottom to a human while
  Titania and Oberon danced happily away.
• 14) The wedding of the Duke of Athens went ahead
  and the workers performed their play. The fairy
  king, queen and Puck attended the wedding and
  blessed it.
• 15) At the end of the story, Puck says
• If we shadows have offended, think but this and
  all is mended. That you have but slumberd here,
  while these visions did appear.
• This means that if anybody didnt like the story
  Shakespeare just told then they should just
  pretend it was a dream and forget about it.