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As the play is Older Than Steam and most twists in Shakespeare's plots are now widely known, all spoilers on this page are unmarked.A comedy by William Shakespeare about a Love Dodecahedron that goes out of control thanks to the meddling of fairies with a Love Potion.Two young Athenians, Hermia and Lysander, are in love. Alas, Hermia's wealthy father Egeus has just promised her to another man named Demetrius, who was formerly with a girl named Helena — who just happens to be Hermia's best friend. The lovers go to court, where Duke Theseus (who has his own impending marriage on his mind), rules in favor of Egeus. He gives Hermia the choice to accept the marriage, be executed, or become a nun.So Hermia and Lysander slip away by night. Before they leave, they confide in Helena and ask her not to tell anyone; naturally, Helena tells Demetrius in hopes of getting back into his good graces. Demetrius follows the lovers, with Helena chasing after him, and all of them end up lost in the same forest.Meanwhile, Oberon, King of the Fairies, is in a petty quarrel with his wife Titania, whom he plans to prank with magical eyedrops that will make anyone fall in love with the next person they see. After eavesdropping on Helena and Demetrius and seeing how he mistreats her, Oberon is moved to pity and sends his servant Puck to give the potion to "a youth in Athenian garb," traveling in the woods with a woman, so that she will be the first thing he sees. Oberon then finds Titania asleep and applies the juice to her eyes.Puck duly uses the potion on a young man in Athenian garb asleep in the woods near a young woman. Unfortunately, it was Lysander, not Demetrius, and the woman who wakes him is Helena. Hermia finds that her beau is now madly in love with her best friend. Unaware of his error, Puck proceeds to his part of the prank regarding Titania. He finds a none-too-bright actor in a group rehearsing a play to be performed at Theseus' wedding, turns his head into a donkey's, scares off the rest of the performers, and leaves him where Titania will see him.Upon discovering that the wrong Athenian was hexed, Oberon tries to mend matters by giving the potion to the intended victim, Demetrius. This backfires too, and now both men have rejected Hermia for Helena, who thinks that the other three are mocking her. By the midpoint of the play, Titania is in love with the man with the donkey's head and isn't in the mood for 'no' (though he isn't complaining much), Lysander and Demetrius are close to blows over Helena, Helena and Hermia are similarly angry at each other, Puck is openly laughing at how Oberon's good intentions have gone astray, and it's going to take some serious Deus ex Machina to straighten things out.Of course, order eventually prevails, everyone is paired off in a triple wedding, and the local tradesmen get to perform their hilariously awful play for the Duke and entourage.One of Shakespeare's silliest and most light-hearted plays, the fantasy setting and comedy heavy on slapstick and farce make it one of his most popular with children — often the first play of his that many see. This is the play that that kid killed himself over in Dead Poets Society. Also, that music which plays at the end of weddings? Felix Mendelssohn wrote it for an 1846 production of this play. | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
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Hotter and Sexier: The 1968 film depicts all the fairies as being mostly nude. Titania is actually only covered up by strategically placed leaves. The 1999 film introduces lots of sexual elements. Lysander tries to have sex with Hermia in the woods before they fall asleep—of course, that's at least hinted at in Shakespeare's text with Hermia's line "Lie further off yet/Do not lie so near." Hermia and Helena have a sexy mud fight, there are Fanservice Extras among Titania's entourage, Bottom and Titania have sex, the four lovers are found naked by Theseus and Hippolyta, and the epilogue has scenes of them all sleeping together after the wedding. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: The flower that causes people to fall in love with whoever they see first, and the flower that reverses that effect. | |
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Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal | |
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Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Titania, dosed with a love potion, falls desperately in love with the next thing she sees, which is Bottom. As he's having a rough day, he proposes to head home, not realizing that she's a fairy queen, and fairy queens aren't used to hearing the word "No". The scene of her capturing him is never played as anything but hilarity, not say, kidnapping and sex slavery. The trope is complicated by the fact that she herself is acting under the influence of a love charm administered by Oberon. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Theseus — slayer of the Minotaur, kinsman of Hercules, husband of the Amazon Queen — doesn't believe in fairies, apparently. | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong: As soon as Lysander says to Helena "Demetrius loves [Hermia] and he loves not you", Demetrius wakes up and instantly starts professing love to Helena. | |
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Nerds Are Sexy | |
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Nerds Are Sexy: Hermia seems to think so, preferring the bespectacled Potteresque Lysander to the conventionally handsome, manly Demetrius. Demetrius himself has a minute with this trope too, thanks to the magic flower... | |
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Love Potion | |
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Love Potion: The juice of a certain flower, applied to the eyes, will cause someone to fall in love with the first person they see. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Here, Athens is a quasi-Nazi state with a villainous Theseus as an Expy of Hitler who rules with an iron fist and has Hippolyta bound and gagged. The lovers' quarrel in the forest is also Played for Drama to an even greater extent than the original text, with a chase culminating in Hermia dangling over a cliff with only Demetrius holding her by the arm. The scene of the Mechanicals' performance is also played in a sinister and suspenseful manner (far from the comic relief of the original text), as Theseus silently notes which performers he finds irritating and marks them for "elimination"; the joyful resolution is delayed until the last few minutes of the film. | |
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Title Drop: The title comes from Nick Bottom's conclusion that the whole play was All Just a Dream. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: The changeling boy, who causes the conflict between Titania and Oberon in the first place, never even appears on stage in the script. Some productions do have him appear, but obviously he doesn't get any lines. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Titania accuses Oberon of being jealous over her love for the changeling boy. Helena is also quite jealous of Demetrius's sudden pursuit of Hermia. | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative: "It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord." | |
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Gender-Equal Ensemble | |
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Gender-Equal Ensemble: The cast is largely comprised of four couples: Oberon and Titania, Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Theseus and Hippolyta. Since three of those four are in some degree of conflict, a Love Dodecahedron forms remarkably quickly once the Faeries get involved. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Puck's final speech is directed to the audience. Bottom breaks the Fourth Wall in the story during the Show Within the Show. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: A man whose name is Bottom gets given the head of an ass. There's some debate over whether "ass" was in common usage at the time, or if the play itself popularized the euphemism, or it evolved later. It's possible that "ass" and "arse" sounded similar in the accent of Shakespeare's day, as well. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: Theseus is an evil despot and Hitler-Expy who keeps Hippolyta as a prisoner in a straitjacket and marks for death any Mechanical who irritates him. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The 1999 film gives Bottom's life outside the main story some focus - showing that he has a nagging wife and is the laughing stock of the town for his antics. | |
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Ironic Name | |
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Ironic Name: In the 1935 film, he is played by the chubby, jovial-looking Otis Harlan. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: As is typical of Shakespeare. The "crew of patches" putting on the "Pyramus and Thisbe" play are based on the Elizabethan-era working class, so their names and professions don't reflect the "ancient Greece" setting. The names of the play actors (Peter, Nick, Tom, etc.) use modern naming conventions that did not exist in Ancient Greece. The presence of the aforementioned play and theater in Mythical Greece is an anachronism. According to the Greeks the first actor ever was a man named Thespis born around sixth century BCE. The entire concept of acting was unknown in the time of Theseus. Hermia alludes to Dido and Aeneas ("And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,/When the false Troyan under sail was seen") even though the Trojan War (and thus Aeneas's flight from burning Troy and eventual arrival at Carthage) happens after the life of Theseus in Greek mythology. Also, Theseus decrees that if Hermia doesn't marry Demetrius, she'll either be executed or have to become a nun. Not exactly a lot of nunneries in mythological Greece. (Although Shakespeare might have meant that she'd have to become a priestess of Artemis, who were required to be chaste.) The fairies (or Oberon and Titania, at least) come from stories originating in medieval France. Bottom seems to know this, as he repeatedly refers to the minor fairies as "Monsieur." There's a line where Puck says, "When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, Rising and cawing at the gun's report." Problem, guns were not invented for centuries! Robin Goodfellow, or Puck, comes from English folklore. Not even the fairies match. The origin of the flower that Oberon uses? A failed attempt by Cupid to make Queen Elizabeth fall in love. The text also mentions Saint Valentine, a reference to a figure not born for millennia and a religion not yet founded. Theseus is called the duke of Athens multiple times, a common name for him in the Middle Ages, but the duchy of Athens wasn't established until the Fourth Crusade. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Pyramus and Thisbe can be considered a spot on lampoon of Shakespeare's other famous play Romeo and Juliet, complete with Star-Crossed Lovers, spoilerific prologue, and sudden Downer Ending. It's also a real myth, told by Ovid. Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet on Pyramus and Thisbe, not the other way around. | |
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What Did I Do Last Night? | |
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What Did I Do Last Night?: Bottom wakes up and is frustrated at not being able to remember what happened during the night. During the final scene, he is very happy at being reminded when Titania smiles and discretely waves at him in acknowledgement. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: There's a reason it's called A Midsummer Night's Dream. The action onstage all takes place in less than 48 hours, and most of it over one night. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Nick Bottom is so confident of his abilities to the point that he believes that he can do anything. He can't. | |
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Background Halo | |
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Background Halo: Used twice for Helena and once for Lysander as they become the objects of magic-flower-induced affection. | |
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Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date | |
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Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date: Lysander and Hermia go on just such a date early in the 1968 film as they plot their escape from Athens. | |
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Adaptational Sexuality | |
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Adaptational Sexuality: Quite a few 21st century productions have introduced LGBT themes into the play, sometimes by Gender Flipping one or more of the lovers (see Gender Flip below). | |
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Statuesque Stunner | |
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Statuesque Stunner: Helena is very tall, blonde, and beautiful. This is emphasised even further when she is shown smiling in a Background Halo shot as first Lysander and then Demetrius fall for her. | |
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Crystal-Ball Scheduling | |
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Crystal-Ball Scheduling: Theseus begins to suffer his heart attack when Pyramus stabs himself in the Mechanicals' play, and dies when Thisbe stabs herself. | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Despite the obvious application of the name, the only true example of the trope is when Helena rejects her former crush Demetrius because she thinks he's playing with her feelings. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Oberon really wants to see Helena's love for Demetrius reciprocated. | |
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve | |
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Despite being set in Ancient Greece, Theseus alludes to the fairies coming out when the clock strikes at midnight. | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender Flip: Titania's fairies can be of either gender (although they are referred to with male forms of address in the text by Bottom), Puck is occasionally played as female, and various members of the Mechanicals are sometimes played as women. In fact even as early as the 19th century, it was something of a tradition for Puck to be portrayed as a graceful ballerina. Numerous 21st century productions, such as Sheila Daniels' 2011 Seattle Shakespeare Company performance or Emma Rice's 2016 version at The Globe, have also gender-swapped Helena or Lysander or both (often renaming them Helenus and/or Lysandra - or, in the case of the 2004 Melmoth production at the Greenwich Theatre, simply swapping their names), resulting in gay and lesbian relationships.note Probably one of the earliest versions to take this route was the 1997 Bailiwick production directed by Scott Cooper; to top it off, the fairies were male and the mechanicals were female. A female Lysander can add another level to the "forbidden love" aspect of her relationship with Hermia and lend a plausible homophobic aspect to Egeus' reason for opposing it (and his speech about Lysander "bewitching" his daughter). A male Helena, on the other hand, can turn Demetrius' character arc into a Coming-Out Story and lend credence to the theory that he was in denial of his true feelings at the beginning of the story (because, in this case, he was closeted); this can re-contextualise his "But like a sickness did I loathe this food..." speech in a very moving way. A 2019 Bridge Theatre production swaps out the roles of Oberon (Oliver Chris) and Titania (Gwendoline Christie); in this version Titania uses the love-flower on Oberon, making him fall in love with Bottom. Also the Rude Mechanicals are split equally down gender lines. | |
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Person of Mass Destruction | |
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Person of Mass Destruction: Oberon and Titania most definitely are this, more than possibly any other Shakespeare character. An argument between the two causes a massive hurricane. Not a fight, an argument. | |
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Amazon Chaser | |
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Amazon Chaser: Theseus to Hippolyta. Her courtship with Theseus was based on fighting and one of his first lines is how his marriage proposal was their duel. | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: The audience was expected to interact with the players. There's a reason Robin tells the audience directly not to take it seriously. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: The Show Within a Show. The Setting Update Get Over It made it a Totally Radical musical of the original play. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: Bottom, who is the poster boy for this trope, saying, for example, 'odious' for 'odours' and 'Ninny's tomb' for 'Ninus' tomb' (Ninus was the legendary founder of Nineveh). Bottom goes onto say that the lion "deflowered my dear!" instead of "devoured". | |
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Cue Card Pause | |
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Cue Card Pause: During the Prologue to "Pyramus and Thisbe". | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Jerk | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Demetrius. Sure, he's sweet to Helena at the end—but it's the love potion talking. | |
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Significant Double Casting | |
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Significant Double Casting: Many productions have the same actors play Oberon / Theseus and Titania / Hippolyta, as there's something of a parallel between their two marriages (and the significance will no doubt be clear to the audience). Plus this way you don't have two actors off-stage for most of the play/don't have to pay two extra actors; and the four characters never appear on stage at the same time, so you can get away with it. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Theseus dies of a heart attack in the final scene. | |
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Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You | |
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Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: Depending on the director, the play has this when Bottom returns to the Mechanicals, after his adventure with the fairies. | |
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Taking the Veil | |
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Taking the Veil: Offered to, and rejected by, Hermia. | |
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Kiss Up the Arm | |
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Kiss Up the Arm: In a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream the two male leads (under the influence of a love spell) both grab one of Helena's hands and kiss it. They try to one up each other by kissing up her arm, and it finished with one of them sniffing her hair. Needless to say, Helena is not amused. | |
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Shock and Awe | |
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Shock and Awe: At one point, Oberon creates a skyward lightning bolt, not as a weapon but as a dramatic display of his power. Demetrius sees it from another part of the forest and stares in awe before Hermia comes up and slaps him. | |
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands | |
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands: When Oberon approaches the sleeping Titania to enchant her, he does this when her fairies move to confront him with weapons. | |
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No Guy Wants to Be Chased | |
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No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Demetrius is doubly repulsed when Helena comes to him before she tells him the news. | |
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Playing a Tree | |
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Playing a Tree: In Pyramus and Thisbe, Tom Snout, one of the would-be rustic actors, plays a wall. Possibly the Ur-Example. Robin Starveling wields a lantern as "Moonshine". | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Theseus marks for implied "elimination" those Mechanicals by whom he is irritated. Hermia's death sentence for refusing to marry Demetrius also counts, especially since in this version, the third option of becoming a nun is not present. | |
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LiteralCliffHanger | |
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Literal Cliff Hanger: During the lovers' quarrel scene, Puck leads them on a wild chase through the forest, with Demetrius carrying Hermia, until he suddenly stalls at a cliff and accidentally lets her fall over the edge, where she hangs from one of his arms for an alarming fifty seconds (while Helena delivers her "I evermore did love you Hermia" speech). Demetrius finally manages to pull her back up. | |
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Rape by Proxy | |
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Rape by Proxy: Oberon more or less commits this against both Titania and Bottom by drugging the former with a love potion that causes her to fall desperately in love with the latter, capturing and having her way with him. The whole thing is Played for Laughs. | |
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Down the Rabbit Hole | |
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Down the Rabbit Hole: The plot can be considered a precursor to modern "portal fantasies". Misfit youths find themselves in a parallel world of magic and whimsy where they are forced to act differently (and sometimes more honestly) than they normally do, and return wiser for the experience. No one goes into a hole, although many phases of the plot end with characters falling asleep on the ground. | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero: Granted, Lysander's under a spell and thus not himself, but the fact that Hermia is black makes his "Out, tawny Tartar, out!" line downright racist. Thank goodness that his arguably even worse line, "Away, you Ethiope!" from the original text was cut. | |
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My Girl Is Not a Slut | |
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My Girl Is Not a Slut: Demetrius wants Helena to stop following him because she's in danger of rape going out at night — and this while he still hates her. (Although his phrasing sort of suggests the danger comes from him.) | |
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Beta Couple | |
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Beta Couple: At least two: Oberon & Titania, Theseus & Hippolyta. They may be one and the same, though. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Although Oberon is initially jealous and angry about Titania's relationship with Hippolyta, he comes around to it, and even helps in rescuing the latter from her bondage which allows her to be with Titania. | |
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Panthera Awesome | |
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Panthera Awesome: In the Show Within a Show, Thisbe is threatened by a lion. | |
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Hourglass Plot | |
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Hourglass Plot: At the start of the play, Hermia is loved by two men, Helena is the abandoned woman loved by none, Lysander is mutually in love with one woman and respectful of the other, and Demetrius has abandoned the woman who loves him to chase the woman who doesn't. By the time of the lovers' quarrel in the forest, the two women have swapped places in this pattern, as have the two men, thanks to the effects of the magic flower. | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: Parodied, as Oberon is definitely not evil, but he engages in this kind of laughter a few times through the film. | |
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Plot Parallel | |
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Plot Parallel: Titania falling under a love spell for Bottom parallels Lysander and Demetrius doing the same for Helena. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: Although the Fairies' lullaby to Titania is omitted, the lines "Never harm nor spell nor charm, come our lovely lady nigh" are said twice: first by Cobweb in the forest when, confronted by Oberon's fairies, she summons Titania; and the second time at the end of the film, uttered by Titania herself (altered to "come my lovely lady nigh") as she frees Hippolyta. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: All the mechanicals have meaningful names. Bottom. He's an ass. The "bottom" was also a tool used in weaving. The "quince" a tool used in carpentry. Flute was a common name for a church organ, which, in Shakespeare's time, used a bellows to pump air; Francis Flute is a bellows-mender, or repairer of such items. He also, in many productions, puts on a high voice in the role of Thisbe. "Snout" in Elizabethan English meant simply "spout". Snout is a tinker, and tinkers mended teakettles. "Starveling" means "someone who is thin from lack of food", and the stereotype about tailors was that they never had enough to eat. Ironic Name: In the 1935 film, he is played by the chubby, jovial-looking Otis Harlan. "Snug" is a good name for a joiner, who should be able to fit everything together snugly. The name "Titania" comes from Ovid's Metamorphosis, where he assigns that name to the daughters of the Titans. "Helena" means "light" or "torch". "Fair Helena, who more enguilds the night/Than all yon firey oes and eyes of light". Helena is supposed to be fair-haired and tall. This also an ironic wink at Helen of Troy and the many much-sought Helens based on her. | |
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Fisher King | |
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Fisher King: Disharmony between Oberon and Titania causes disharmony in the land and seasons. | |
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Eternal Sexual Freedom | |
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Eternal Sexual Freedom: The 1999 film has the scene of Lysander and Demetrius appealing to Theseus happen after Theseus's party has found the four lovers naked and lying next to each other - looking as if they've had sex in a field. Not only does Theseus appear unfazed by this shameless display of premarital sex, Egeus doesn't even bat an eyelid at his daughter being found naked in public. The couples are also seen sleeping together in the epilogue, even though they're not married yet. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Bottom. He's an ass. The "bottom" was also a tool used in weaving. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: Heavily implied by Oberon's speech at the end; his blessing on the three couples ensures that their future children will be free from birth defects. | |
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Parental Marriage Veto | |
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Parental Marriage Veto: Egeus orders Hermia to marry Demetrius instead of Lysander. It should be noted that Athenian Law dictated that a woman who disobeyed her father's will would be executed. | |
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Coming-Out Story | |
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Numerous 21st century productions, such as Sheila Daniels' 2011 Seattle Shakespeare Company performance or Emma Rice's 2016 version at The Globe, have also gender-swapped Helena or Lysander or both (often renaming them Helenus and/or Lysandra - or, in the case of the 2004 Melmoth production at the Greenwich Theatre, simply swapping their names), resulting in gay and lesbian relationships.note Probably one of the earliest versions to take this route was the 1997 Bailiwick production directed by Scott Cooper; to top it off, the fairies were male and the mechanicals were female. A female Lysander can add another level to the "forbidden love" aspect of her relationship with Hermia and lend a plausible homophobic aspect to Egeus' reason for opposing it (and his speech about Lysander "bewitching" his daughter). A male Helena, on the other hand, can turn Demetrius' character arc into a Coming-Out Story and lend credence to the theory that he was in denial of his true feelings at the beginning of the story (because, in this case, he was closeted); this can re-contextualise his "But like a sickness did I loathe this food..." speech in a very moving way. | |
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I Gave My Word | |
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I Gave My Word: Hermia gives Lysander a monologue essentially saying this when he asks her to come with him. | |
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Pair the Spares | |
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Pair the Spares: Demetrius and Helena ending up together functions as this. Some productions will subvert this by implying that Demetrius did love Helena and the love juice just reawakened those feelings - turning them into the Beta Couple. | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Hermia's situation at the beginning of the play is more dire than in the text, because Theseus has been transformed from a relatively benevolent ruler to an evil despot who shows her zero sympathy and does not offer her the third option of becoming a nun. The Mechanicals are in a much higher-stakes situation than in the text when they perform; Mistress Quince is accordingly frantic in her efforts to keep things moving and stop any performers from irritating Theseus. | |
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience | |
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The two ballet adaptations usually have similar costume designs in contrasting colours for the two mortal couples, to help the audience to keep track of who is who in the absence of spoken dialogue. George Balanchine's ballet (NYC Ballet's 2017 production) has Hermia and Lysander as the "blue couple" and Helena and Demetrius as the "red couple", while in Frederick Ashton's ballet adaptation titled "The Dream" (American Ballet Theatre production) it's the other way round. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: An In-Universe example with the Rude Mechanicals' play—they notice that the script calls for Pyramus and Thisbe to meet under the light of the moon. After consulting an almanac, they decide that it's better to have someone play the Moon itself rather than risk any problems. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
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All Love Is Unrequited: This situation arises for a short time between the four mortal lovers after Lysander is magically induced to love Helena and before Demetrius is. | |
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All-Star Cast | |
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A 1999 Hollywood production set in 19th Century Italy, featuring yet another invokedAll-Star Cast— Kevin Kline as Bottom, Sam Rockwell as Flute, Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, Calista Flockhart as Helena, Stanley Tucci as Puck, and Christian Bale as Demetrius. | |
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Weddings for Everyone | |
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Weddings for Everyone: The climax is at Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding, where the weddings of Lysander and Hermia and Helena and Demetrius are announced too. | |
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Suspect Is Hatless | |
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Suspect Is Hatless: Oberon tells Puck to smear the love potion on the eyes of a youth dressed in Athenian garb. Given the play is set in a forest just outside of Athens, it is perhaps not too surprising that Puck smears the potion on the eyes of the wrong youth dressed in Athenian garb. Puck even points this out to Oberon, when his king is blaming him for the resulting mess. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Egeus has promised his daughter Hermia to Demetrius. She's not happy about it, but nothing can be done until Demetrius calls the thing off. | |
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It Amused Me | |
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It Amused Me: Puck's screwing up with the love potion. Sure it was a mistake but he's enjoying the results. "Then will two at once woo one. That must needs be sport alone. All these things do best please me, that befall preposterously." | |
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Large Ham | |
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Then the court is charmed by Bottom's pathos as Pyramus, despite his scenery chewing: | |
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MST | |
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MST: During Pyramus and Thisbe. Possibly the Ur-Example. | |
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Fairy Ring | |
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Fairy Ring: The play alludes to fairy rings in Act II, Scene 1 ("And I serve the fairy queen, / To dew her orbs upon the green" and "To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind"). | |
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Fairy Sexy | |
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Fairy Sexy: Titania is often given a form-flattering gown. The 1999 film depicts Oberon this way too, as he's a Walking Shirtless Scene. | |
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Crystal Dragon Jesus | |
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Crystal Dragon Jesus: Apparently in mythological Greece, nuns served Diana. In Shakespeare's time, the Greek word for the maidens who served Diana was often translated as "nuns" because their vows also required celibacy. Thus this may be "nearest modern equivalent" translation rather than an actual Crystal Dragon Jesus trope. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: Titania and Bottom, briefly. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
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The Fair Folk: Probably near-single-handedly responsible for ensuring a darkish version of the fairies was always remembered despite Victorian Bowdlerization, which is mildly ironic because one of Shakespeare's subversions in the show is that his fairies act more or less human and benevolently, vice the contemporary view that they were cruel and alien. | |
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Cute Clumsy Girl | |
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Cute Clumsy Girl: The very tall Helena is implied to be somewhat gangly as she trips over while following Demetrius through the woods. | |
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Overshadowed by Awesome | |
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Overshadowed by Awesome: Between the lovestruck kids and the great passive-aggressive fairie divorce settlement, people don't give much thought to the rude mechanicals. Bottom is the fool who has the best summation of the entire play: he gets his head turned into a donkey. Meaning, "Love makes asses of us all". | |
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Great Gazoo | |
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Great Gazoo: Puck is one of the Trope Codifiers, as a magical trickster who causes most of the hilarity. | |
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Our Fairies Are Different | |
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Our Fairies Are Different: The original play used this trope by making the fairies less sinister than they were commonly portrayed at the time. | |
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The Big Damn Kiss | |
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The Big Damn Kiss: Several of them in the final scenes, but most epic is the one between Titania and Hippolyta, both of whom have spread their wings and flown up to the rafters hand-in-hand. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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Take a Third Option: Or rather a fourth. Instead of marrying Demetrius, being executed or taking the veil, Hermia elopes with Lysander. At the play's conclusion, Demetrius himself provides a fifth option: he calls the marriage off, because now he wants to marry Helena. | |
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Adaptational Diversity | |
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Adaptational Diversity: This specific production features a bisexual Titania, a lesbian Hippolyta played by the half-English, half-Japanese Eleanor Matsuura, a black Oberon played by Nonso Anozie, a Sri Lankan Puck, a black, ambiguously bi Demetrius, a gender-flipped Quince, a black Snug, Flute and Egeus and an Indian Peaseblossom. | |
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Not with Them for the Money | |
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Not with Them for the Money: Lysander genuinely loves Hermia and doesn't care about any money he might inherit from Egeus. He accuses Demetrius of the opposite, saying he was fine with Helena until a wealthier prospect came along. | |
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Tension-Cutting Laughter | |
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Tension-Cutting Laughter: Oberon delivers some when he says "Lord, what fools these mortals be!", to Puck's relief that the King of the Fairies is not angry with him at that moment. This stands out as a contrast to the moments when the laughing Puck promptly shuts up when he sees that Oberon is not amused. | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Downplayed. Demetrius is not tiny, but the statuesque Helena is still noticeably taller than him. She also towers over Lysander and especially Hermia who has to jump up to kiss her on the cheek. | |
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Elopement | |
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Elopement: Hermia and Lysander run off to do this, since Hermia is going to be forced into an Arranged Marriage to Demetrius (or put into a convent). However, events work out so that Demetrius cancels the wedding and the two are able to get married in Athens after all. | |
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Land of Faerie | |
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Land of Faerie: The woods are inhabited by fairies, and Titania and Oberon would be the Queen and King of that land. | |
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Final Speech | |
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Final Speech: Parodied in the Show Within a Show. Bottom takes forever to die as Pyramus, and Hippolyta complains that he's such a bad actor, he doesn't deserve to have his Thisbe take forever to die for him: "I hope she will be brief." Can be a subverted parody, in Thisbe's final speech. Some interpretations have Flute actually turning out to be a good actor, dropping his bad falsetto, and using his final monologue to show what could have easily happened to the lovers. This gives Theseus's approval of the play (and his insistence that the epilogue was unnecessary) a very different connotation. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly Long Gag: The mechanicals' play goes on for way too long, and is that much the funnier for it. | |
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Nice to the Waiter | |
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Nice to the Waiter: Surprisingly, Bottom, when Titania puts her entire fairy court at his service, takes time out to talk politely with several attending fairies and ask how their families are getting on. This may not be quite kindliness, depending on how the actor plays it — if Bottom thinks it's a dream, then he's just having fun and making a lot of bad puns, or he could be trying out the feeling of noblesse oblige. Or he's terrified of them. Nonetheless, he's making an effort. | |
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Dance Party Ending | |
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Dance Party Ending: For both the mortals and the fairies. | |
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Homosocial Heterosexuality | |
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Homosocial Heterosexuality: Lampshaded when Lysander tells Demetrius he should just marry Egeus, since Egeus loves him but Hermia doesn't! | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: The changeling boy will often get portrayed on screen, when he's The Ghost in the original play. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Oberon humiliates his wife for an extremely petty reason, and gets exactly what he wanted out of it. Titania doesn't seem to care at all once the spell is removed. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: The magic flower juice causes this. The consequences are hilarious. | |
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Adaptational Jerkass | |
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Adaptational Jerkass: Puck comes across Lysander and Hermia while they are still awake and hears some of their loving discourse, which makes his subsequent enchanting of Lysander look less like an honest mistake and more like deliberate mischief, in contrast to the original text in which he only discovers them when they're asleep. He is also responsible for leading the four lovers on a chase to the edge of a cliff. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Puck usually has a hilarious one when he realizes that he enchanted the wrong person. While he stands next to Oberon. | |
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Viewers Are Morons | |
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Viewers Are Morons: What Bottom thinks that the audience of his So Bad, It's Good play is and takes things too literally, because he thinks that they don't have a Willing Suspension of Disbelief. | |
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Setting Update | |
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Setting Update: Due to the Anachronism Stew mentioned above, it's often prone to these. The 1935 film updates it to the Renaissance. The 1968 film takes place in early 20th century England. The 1999 film is in late 19th century Tuscany. The 2016 Globe Adaptation moves the setting to London, with the Mechanicals being Globe workers in T-shirts and starting with them doing a humorous safety briefing for the audience. It also changes a number of references for local ones, including "Hoxton hipsters". | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: The Mechanicals keep referring in Ninus's tomb as "Ninny's tomb", to Quince's increasing frustration. | |
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A Simple Plan | |
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A Simple Plan: Lysander and Hermia's elopement seems like it should be simple... | |
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Horned Humanoid | |
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Horned Humanoid: Oberon is this in many productions. In the 1935 version, it looks less like antlers, and more like he's suffering from a strange brachiating disease—and after Oberon scoops up the changeling boy, the boy grows similar weird antlers. Many productions also horn Puck, most likely to play up his devilishness (and because Robin Goodfellow is depicted with horns in woodcuts from Shakespeare's time — he basically resembles a satyr). | |
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Ur-Example | |
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In Pyramus and Thisbe, Tom Snout, one of the would-be rustic actors, plays a wall. Possibly the Ur-Example. | |
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Sirens Are Mermaids | |
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Sirens Are Mermaids: Oberon's story of the magic flower for the love potion includes a mermaid's beautiful singing, though she calms the sea rather than lures anyone to death. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Helena. Go run to the unknown woods, chasing after a guy that is very angry with your Yandere behaviour, who has a very short fuse. Demitrius openly states that it's "brave" of her and that he very well could "do [her] some mischief", which she doesn't seem nearly bothered enough by. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Lysander and Hermia love each other, Demetrius loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius. Demetrius used to love Helena until Hermia's beauty (or Egeus' money) caught his eye. | |
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Forced Transformation | |
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Forced Transformation: Bottom's head turned into that of an ass. He never seems to actually notice that anything is different (although he does express a craving for hay and oats).' | |
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Eternal Love | |
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Eternal Love: Oberon and Titania. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Don't call Hermia short. She'll try to claw your eyes out! | |
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Ambiguously Bi | |
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Ambiguously Bi: As in the text, Demetrius serially loves both Hermia and Helena (whom he marries), but in this version he also briefly falls for Lysander (albeit by magic) and later comments on the attractiveness of Francis Flute as Thisbe. | |
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Accidental Kiss | |
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Accidental Kiss: Downplayed in the Frederick Ashton ballet, "The Dream", in which the lovers' quarrel in the forest has a couple of accidental hugs between Lysander and Demetrius as both simultaneously move to hug Helena and she slips out of their way at the last moment. | |
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All Amazons Want Hercules | |
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All Amazons Want Hercules: "Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword/And won thy love, doing thee injuries..." Also specifically invoked when Theseus tries to impress Hippolyta with his hounds. She teasingly tells him that she went hunting with Hercules and his hounds were better. (In Greek mythology, Hippolyta was always paired with either Theseus or Hercules.) | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: In the 1999 movie version, Egeus quietly excuses himself from his daughter's wedding, flashing Hermia a Death Glare. With no added dialogue, he made it clear, that he would never forgive Hermia, for going against his wishes, and marrying Lysander. | |
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Dies Differently in Adaptation | |
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Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original mythology, Theseus was thrown off a cliff by King Lycomedes. Due to the play having been set at an earlier point in Theseus' life and thus, lacking Lycomedes, the more overtly villainous Theseus in this adaptation of the play dies from a heart attack. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Show Within a Show: Pyramus and Thisbe, from the myth told by Ovid. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Lysander looks like a lighter-haired Harry Potter, while Hermia is black and has the signature red jacket and feistiness of Martha Jones (not surprisingly, given the writer). When Cobweb enters the forest and is confronted by Oberon and his fairies, she resembles Little Red Riding Hood. There are a couple of references to other Shakespeare plays: the TV screen in the pub is playing a program called "A Comedy of Errors"; upon receiving the part of Thisbe, Francis Flute says "To thine own self be true!" and the final celebratory dance number is a musical setting of "It was a Lover and his Lass". | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: We know that Hermia and Lysander will try to elope, so of course we know it won't work. | |
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And You Were There | |
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And You Were There: In many productions, the actors playing Theseus and Hippolyta also play Oberon and Titania. Theseus' servant Philostrate is usually Puck as well. Some productions—such as the filmed 1996 production by the Royal Shakespeare Company—even go the whole nine yards and double Flute, Snug, Snout and Starveling as Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustardseed (in no particular order). | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It isn't made clear whether Theseus' fatal heart attack was natural, or magically induced by the fairies. | |
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Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends | |
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Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Hermia and Lysander are pardoned and allowed to marry. Demetrius and Helena get together too, while Oberon and Titania reconcile. | |
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Introdump | |
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Intro Dump: Peter Quince rattles off the names of every other actor in the company, as he's assigning parts. | |
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Serial Romeo | |
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Serial Romeo: Demetrius has shades of this; partly thanks to the magic flower, he falls in love with all three of the other lovers in turn. Lampshaded when he addresses Helena with almost exactly the same extravagant lines as he said to Lysander just one minute ago. | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
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Death by Childbirth: Titania's mortal handmaiden and close friend, before the story begins, died giving birth to a baby boy. For her sake, Titania raises the boy as her own, and keeps him close. | |
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Cast Full of Gay | |
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Cast Full of Gay: As expected, being a Russell T. Davies production. Flute and one of the Athens guardsmen hit it off; Titania is romantic with Oberon, Bottom and Hippolyta; Demetrius sees and briefly falls for Lysander under the love spell, but also comments on Flute's attractiveness whilst the latter is playing Thisbe. As Hippolyta shows exactly zero affection for Theseus, we could conclude that gives two gay, two bisexual, and one lesbian in the characters. | |
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Pajama-Clad Hero | |
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Pajama-Clad Hero: The 1996 Adrian Noble directed film features a majority of the characters in Victorian/Edwardian sleepwear the whole way through. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Oberon. Also Theseus, depending on interpretation. He manages to resolve the Love Dodecagon without anyone facing an unpleasant end, and then provides the perfect play to show the lovers what could have happened had he not stepped in. Multiple characters threaten murder and suicide, and Midsummer could easily have ended more in line with Pyramus and Thisbe. | |
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Living MacGuffin | |
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Living MacGuffin: The changeling boy at the center of Oberon and Titania's quarrel. Despite all their arguments, he's clearly just a pretext for their latest disagreement — he doesn't even get a name! | |
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Coupled Couples | |
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Coupled Couples: Hermia and Lysander are the first couple, Demetrius and Helena are the second. | |
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Height Insult | |
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Height Insult: Zeroth Law! | |
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Man of a Thousand Voices | |
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Man of a Thousand Voices: An In-Universe variation. Bottom firmly believes that he's such an incredible actor that he could easily play all of the roles in "Pyramus and Thisbe"... problem is, he's barely able to play his own role, let alone any other. | |
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Green-Skinned Space Babe | |
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Green-Skinned Space Babe: The 1968 film has all the fairies in green body paint. All of them, yes, but most of them are children, two of them are dudes, and only one is beautiful young Judi Dench wearing nothing but the green paint and ivy for pasties. | |
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Changeling Tale | |
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Changeling Tale: In the backstory — Oberon and Titania are fighting over custody of a human child they abducted. | |
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Fourth Wall | |
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Bottom breaks the Fourth Wall in the story during the Show Within the Show. | |
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No Antagonist | |
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No Antagonist: The plot is driven by several love triangles, no character is truly evil here. | |
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Gay Best Friend | |
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Gay Best Friend: In Emma Rice's 2016 Globe production, Helenus (the gender-flipped Helena) initially has this kind of relationship with Hermia. They confide in each other and spontaneously break out into synchronised dancing together while Lysander stands awkwardly by. | |
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Contrast Montage | |
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Contrast Montage: Near the end, there is a very moving one between Flute as Thisbe in the Mechanicals' play delivering her final speech and stabbing herself, and Theseus dying for real in the corridors, almost making Thisbe's speech into an elegy for him. | |
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The Fool | |
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The Fool: Puck plays the jester for Oberon, but the real Fool in this play is Bottom, whose accidental witticisms occasionally contain great insight (which goes right over his head). Note that in Shakespeare's plays, the fool is often wiser than he appears. Bottom is supposedly a great actor, though he doesn't show it. In some performances, Flute's final monologue becomes dramatic, when Flute finally gets fed up with being mocked and essentially states the (very relevant) message of Pyramus and Thisbe outright. The sudden change of tone is quite powerful, and would not have been possible had Bottom not ensured the rest of the play was hilariously bad. Generally this is portrayed as accidental, but not always. | |
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Happily Ever Before | |
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Happily Ever Before: In Greek mythology the Amazons rescue Hippolyta the day of their wedding, leading Theseus to instead pursue Helen of Troy. The play ends right before any of this goes down. | |
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Honor Thy Parent | |
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Honor Thy Parent: Hermia wants to marry Lysander but her father Egeus has engaged her to Demetrius. Egeus petitions Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to enforce a law according to which Hermia must submit to her father or incur the death penalty! Theseus offers Hermia a third option — to become a nun of the goddess Diana, but she rejects this option and Theseus feels compelled to enforce the law, giving Hermia some time to think about it. Hermia and Lysander, however, resolve to flee Athens, and this drives the rest of the plot. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Oberon specifically instructs Puck to put the love flower's juices on a man in "Athenian garb." Puck does just that...but the problem is there are two men in "Athenian garb"—Lysander and Demetrius—in the forest that night, and he doesn't know that Oberon meant the latter, not the former. When Oberon tries to take Puck to task for this, the fairy uses this trope to defend himself—he did just what the king ordered him to do, and thus can't be punished. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: At the end of the play, the couples and Nick Bottom decide, with the help of The Fair Folk, that the night's events were just a dream, and in the epilogue spoken by Puck, he advises the audiences: "If we shadows have offended / Think but this, and all is mended / That you have but slumbered here / While these visions did appear. / And this weak and idle theme, / no more yielding, but a dream." | |
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Bound and Gagged | |
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Bound and Gagged: Hippolyta spends most of the film tied up in a straitjacket and gagged. At the end of the story, when she is finally freed, it is revealed that she is a fairy with beautiful wings. | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl: Helena follows Demetrius into the woods all the way from Athens because she's that clingy. | |
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Best Her to Bed Her | |
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Best Her to Bed Her: Hippolyta: Theseus "wooed her with his sword" | |
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Adaptational Angst Downgrade | |
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Adaptational Angst Downgrade: As part of its simplification of the story, the George Balanchine ballet adaptation downplays the lovers' quarrel in the forest. When Demetrius wakes up and declares his love for Helena, she reciprocates almost immediately after a moment of surprise, and does not doubt his sincerity as she did in the original. In addition, despite being a two-act ballet, the whole story is resolved by the end of Act I, with Act II consisting of an extended wedding dance celebration without any narrative drama. | |
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Ensemble Cast | |
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Ensemble Cast: Focus is split evenly between the lovers, the fairies, and the actors (mostly Bottom), with no one person who can be called the main character. | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: Helena. At one point she claims she wouldn't mind if Demetrius treated her like a dog so long as she could be his dog. She also seems pretty unconcerned when he threatens to rape her. Granted, it's because she doesn't think he'd go through with it, but still. | |
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0% Approval Rating | |
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0% Approval Rating: Theseus maintains fear-based order and obedience, but seems almost universally disliked. His appearance on the screens meet with boos from the tavern-goers, and his death is followed by a universal celebration, with the only (vaguely implied) elegy for him coming from Flute delivering his final speech in the role of Thisbe. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted. Puck's other name is Robin Goodfellow, and Starveling's first name is Robin. | |
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Child Marriage Veto | |
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Child Marriage Veto: Hermia refuses her Arranged Marriage to Demetrius, but Theseus tells her Egeus is within his rights. The situation is resolved when Demetrius refuses the marriage. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": The actors playing Bottom and the rest of the tradesmen are absolutely required to give their best worst performances during Pyramus and Thisbe. Bottom ought to chew the scenery like there is no tomorrow, but it's up to the rest of the Players to determine just how they'll mangle the play. | |
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I Love You Because I Can't Control You | |
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I Love You Because I Can't Control You: A common way to play Oberon's relationship with Titania. In the scene where he disenchants her, he's just won her changeling boy without a fight, and he's humiliated her as much as could be wished. But while that would have been a fine laugh in Elizabethan days, to modern audiences it comes off as smug and mean. So actors might play Oberon as despondent, realizing that a Titania, who'll obey his every command isn't the proud, and fiery Queen he fell in love with. | |
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Why Don't You Marry It? | |
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Why Don't You Marry It?: | |
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Narm Charm | |
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Narm Charm: In-universe example: this is the court's reaction to the mechanicals' awful Show Within a Show. First, there's Theseus's reaction to the goofy description of the play (as "merry and tragical [and] tedious and brief"): Then the court is charmed by Bottom's pathos as Pyramus, despite his scenery chewing: | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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The 1999 film introduces lots of sexual elements. Lysander tries to have sex with Hermia in the woods before they fall asleep—of course, that's at least hinted at in Shakespeare's text with Hermia's line "Lie further off yet/Do not lie so near." Hermia and Helena have a sexy mud fight, there are Fanservice Extras among Titania's entourage, Bottom and Titania have sex, the four lovers are found naked by Theseus and Hippolyta, and the epilogue has scenes of them all sleeping together after the wedding. | |
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Love Makes You Crazy | |
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Love Makes You Crazy: The love spell turns Lysander and Demetrius into violent crazies who are prepared to duel for Helena's hand. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: The American elision of "arse" to "ass" added an extra pun to Bottom's name. | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: Helena tries to use this trope to win over Hermia in the confusion in the woods when she thinks that Hermia betrayed her. It doesn't work. (Made worse in that Helena betrays Hermia first.) | |
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Lohengrin and Mendelssohn | |
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Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: As noted above, the "Mendelssohn" part, namely the "Wedding March" (the now-traditional wedding recessional music), was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn as part of his incidental music for an 1842 stage production of this play. | |
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Pet the Dog: A possible one for the villainous Theseus when he overrules Egeus' will and allows Hermia to marry Lysander. However, this is undermined by the fact that a) Demetrius' change of heart made the earlier ruling untenable, and b) Theseus would have something to gain by being flanked by two happy couples during his marriage to Hippolyta, to distract from the fact that the latter is very much not happy. | |
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