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Hermia—how will you pace the cadence of your last line in act I?
Lysander: what is meant by ‘collied night?’
Helena: pronounce ‘errs’
Bottom: explain ‘treats on.’
Quince: ‘lamentable’
Fairy--bootless
Theseus—what do you mean by ‘But in this kind, wanting your father's voice/The other must be held the worthier.
Demetrius ‘wode’—what does it mean and how will you say it?
Oberon—‘glance at my credit with Hippolyta’
Titania—‘Pelting’
Puck--changeling
Theseus--What happens on the new moon?
Theseus--How did Hippolyta and Theseus become engaged?
Egeus--Why do you come to see Theseus?
Egeus--Who or what has made you ‘full of vexation?’
Egeus--What is your complaint against Lysander?
Lysander and Demetrius—how will you behave when Egeus orders you to ‘stand forth?’
Ebeus—what are ‘gawds, conceits,/Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats’—generally and specifically?
Egeus--filch'd
Egeus-- What is the ‘ancient privilege of Athens’ Egeus begs?
Egeus-- I may dispose of her—what do you mean? What attitude do you use here?
Theseus Who is told to be to her father ‘but as a form in wax’?
Theseus—what do you mean by ‘But in this kind, wanting your father's voice/The other must be held the worthier.
Hermia -- What do you mean with, “I would my Father looked but with my eyes.”
Hermia--What consequences does Hermia face if she loses her case?
Hermia—what is ‘the livery of a nun’?
Hermia—what does it mean to be ‘mew’d’?
Theseus: what is the meaning of your metaphor (‘the rose distill’d’)?
Hermia: what is the meaning of your four-line speech to Theseus (‘So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord…’)?
Theseus: why do you wait to judge Hermia? What is your solution to the problem?
Demetrius: what is your approach to arguing for Hermia’s hand?
Lysander: What is the tone and attitude revealed in your first line?
Lysander: what do you mean by ‘as well derived as he’.
Lysander: you make an argument in favor of your suit, then you make an argument against Demetrius’ character. Explain.
Theseus—what do you mean by ‘private schooling’—what will happen when you go off with them?
Theseus—what do you mean by ‘may we extenuate.’
Theseus—what do you mean by ‘I must employ you In some business against our nuptial.’
Lysander—what is your attitude toward Hermia in the line ‘How now, my love?’
Hermia—explain ‘Belike for want of rain….my eyes.’
Lysander—close explanation and understanding of your very famous) line ‘Ay me! For aught…different in blood,’
Hermia and Lysander—work the back-and-forth (O cross!) very thoroughly. What attitude or emotion is appropriate For this exchange?
Lysander—what do you mean by ‘sympathy in choice’
Lysander—what is meant by ‘momentany’?
Lysander—what does the pronoun ‘it’ refer to in the line ‘The jaws of darkness do devour it up.’
Hermia—what are you proposing in ‘if then true lovers…Fancy’s followers.’
Lysander’s words are familiar.
Lysander—what are you proposing?
Hermia—why do you break into rhyme here?
Helena—how will you read these rhymes?
Helena—Does Hermia have a fair?
Helena—what is a lode-star?
Helena—what do you mean by ‘sickness is catching’
Helena—this language about ear/voice, eye/eye—learn it well and remember it.
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Helena—what is meant by ‘Demetrius being bated’
Helena and Hermia—what is the tone and attitude of the exchange (I frown upon him…)
Lysander—why do you ‘unfold’ your mind to Helena?
Lysander—why do you use such flowery language (‘Decking with liquid pearl…’)?
Hermia: what do you mean by ‘Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet…’? pronounce ‘bosom.’
Hermia—how will you pronounce ‘companies’?
Helena: what does this mean: ‘some o’er other some’?
Helena: explain ‘he will not know what all but he do know.’
Helena: pronounce ‘errs’
Helena: pronounce words in the rhymes—some tricky ones.
Helena: explain lines ‘Nor hath Love’s mind…unheedy haste’
Helena: waggish
Helena: perjured
Helena: eyne
Helena: what do you decide to do end i—might create a teensy bit of conflict? What’s your motive for doing so?
ALL PLAYERS: Comment on the style of your lines.
ALL PLAYERS: Comment on your names.
Bottom: What tone or attitude will you take?
Bottom: how old are you? What’s your work?
Quince: what’s your attitude toward this enterprise?
Quince: How old are you? What’s your job?
Bottom: what do you mean by ‘grow to a point.’
ALL PLAYERS: look up and read the original Pyramus And Thisbe. Know it well. Is it a comedy?
Quince: ‘lamentable’
Bottom: who’s in charge?
Bottom: what is the point of all of your digressions?
Bottom: condole
Bottom: ‘tear a cat in.’
Bottom: how do you change at ‘the raging rocks’
Flute: your part and your complaint (‘I have a beard coming’) show us something.
Bottom: your tone when you try to steal the part of Thisbe
Quince—as you get Bottom and Flute sorted out on who plays which part—what attitude?
Quince--fitted
Quince--extempore
Quince—how do you play the lines in which you talk Bottom out of trying to play the lion?
ALL PLAYERS—‘that would hang us’—how should that line be set? What’s its purpose?
Bottom--discretion
Bottom—‘sucking dove’
Bottom—‘roar you any nightingale’
Bottom---explain the absurdity of your plan to play the lion without getting everyone hanged.
Quince—understand your ‘French crowns’ line, which is a dirty joke.
Quince—‘con’
Quince—‘a mile without’
Quince—‘our devices known’--explain quince—‘a bill of properties’
Bottom—‘obscenely and courageously’.
Bottom—‘cut bowstrings.’
Puck—‘how now’
Fairy—how will you run these rhymes? How are they different from rhymes above?
Fairy--thorough
Fairy--pensioners
Fairy--savours
Fairy—what is meant by ‘hang a pearl’
Fairy—‘thou lob of spirits’
Fairy—anon Fairy—what is your job?
Puck--revels
Puck—‘passing fell and wrath’
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Puck—what is your attitude during this speech?
Puck--perforce
Puck--spangled
Puck—‘square’
Puck—‘and hide them’—who is ‘them?’
Fairy—‘skim milk’—an action, what is it? Also--quern
Fairy—barm
Puck—what is your job? (look around ‘thou speak’st aright to find a clue.)
Puck—what happens when you beguile a fat horse?
Puck—‘dewlap.’ Why a crab? What is a ‘gossip?’
Puck—what do you do to the ‘wisest aunt?’
Puck—why ‘tailor’cries
Puck--quire
Puck--neeze
Oberon—‘ill met’ What’s your attitude?
Titania—‘forsworn’ What’s your attitude?
Oberon—‘tarry’ and ‘wanton’—explain this line.
Titania—who is Corin? Why his shape?
Titania—pipes of corn
Titania—who is Phillida?
Titania—who is she talking about, the ‘buskin’d mistress’—what’s Titania’s point here? What tone? What accusation?
Oberon—‘glance at my credit with Hippolyta’
Oberon—‘I know thy love to Theseus.’ What’s this accusation? Why is it a problem?
Oberon—Perigenia ravished
Oberon—what is AEgle? Ariadne? Antiopa?
Titania—‘forgeries of jealousy’—an excellent line.Don’t screw it up.
Titania—beached margent—meaning, meter
Titania—‘but with thy brawls’—what happened?
Titania—‘pelting’
Titania—‘overborne their continents’--?
Titania—explain the metaphor of the ox
Titania—‘the fold stands empty’
Titania—‘murrion’
Titania—‘nine men’s morris’
Titania—‘quaint mazes’
Titania—what does she mean by ‘diseases’? what is her point to Oberon in this speech?
Titania—‘Hiems’
Titania—‘odorous chaplet’
Titania—‘change their wonted liveries’—again, what is her complaint?
Titania—progeny of evils
Oberon—‘Do you amend it then’—meaning?
Titania—‘buys not the child’
Titania—‘votaress’
Titania—what did you and the child’s mother do?
Titania—‘see the sails conceive’—explain metaphor
Titania—‘as from a voyage—this is a rich speech!
Oberon—how did Titania’s speech affect you?
Oberon and Titania—get the tone right!
Oberon--torment
Oberon—promontory (meaning, pronounce, meter)
Oberon--dulcet
Oberon—know the lovely, lyrical speech about the lost cupid-arrow that you give to Puck.
Oberon--loosed
Oberon--Quench'd
Oberon--In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Oberon--mark'd I
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Oberon—‘shew’d’
Oberon—‘madly dote’
Oberon—‘leviathan’ meaning, pronounce, meter
Puck—note your tone, your style of speech. It’s different—for a reason—know why!
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