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1 (The setting is the city of Athens, in
ancient Greece. Puck stands on stage,
squinting at the audience.)
2 PUCK: Well hello there, I’m Puck! I’m
the “mischievous sprite” mentioned in Scene 1
the list of characters. (Winks.) No, I’m
not winking at you—I lost my glasses
and can’t see too well. But enough 4 LYSANDER: Hermia, my love, are you
about me! I’m here to introduce you to all right? You look so pale . . .
Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s 5 (Hermia can barely speak, she is so
Dream by telling you about our four overcome with tears.)
main characters. Their names are 6 LYSANDER: Please don’t cry! Every
Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and book I have ever read tells of true love
Helena, and they’re in a pickle. So I help being a rough road. All sorts of things
them by making things even worse! Ha! go wrong. Sometime couples are from
But that comes later. First, here’s what different walks of life, or are too
you need to know. Hermia’s father, different in age, or their families want
Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius, them to marry someone else—
but she’s in love with Lysander, and 7 HERMIA: It is torture, having your love
guess what? Lysander loves her, too. chosen for you by someone else!
Lucky, right? Meanwhile, to boost his 8 LYSANDER: Even if two people do get
case, Lysander tries to cast Demetrius together, other things can tear them
in a bad light. He tells Egeus that apart, making their love as brief as
Demetrius once loved Hermia’s best lightning in the sky. (Lysander wipes
friend Helena, but dumped her for away Hermia’s tears.) Beautiful things
Hermia, proving himself to be a “spotted can be fleeting, my love. But they’re
and inconstant man” (aka, a total jerk). still beautiful.
Hermia has a few days to think about 9 HERMIA: (trying to smile at him) If that’s
things, and then she will have to choose the way it is, then I suppose we must be
her fate. And that’s where we start! patient and bear our struggle. Pain and
I’ll leave you to it—I have to find my sorrow is part of true love.
glasses.
3 (Puck leaves as Lysander and Hermia
overcome Someone who is overcome is
come in. Lysander is holding Hermia, experiencing a deep level of emotion.
who looks like she might faint.) fleeting Something that is fleeting passes by
very quickly.
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