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Teacher's Introduction

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Full text

Background Activities

Theseus and Hippolyta

• Hippolyte
• Theseus

Puck

• Puck Through the Ages

Scene-by-Scene Activities

Act 1, Scene 1: Why Does the Play Begin with Theseus and Hippolyta?

• Lantern Making

Act 2, Scene 1: The lovers plot

• Flowers in Shakespeare's plays
• Theseus and Hippolyta

Act 2, Scene 2: Titania’s Big Sleep

• What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?

Whole-Text Activities

Character Relationships

Themes

• Optical Illusions in Some of History's Most Iconic Masterpieces
• Neoplatonism

Form

• Exploring the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy
• How to Identify a Shakespeare Comedy

Context

• Summer Solstice
• The Pagan Library
• Poverty in Elizabethan England
• A Midsummer Night's Dream: Past RSC Productions
• Dawn French as Bottom
• Women's Institute's WWII scrapbook

Critcal Reception

• Translating The Seagull: how far can you push Chekhov?
• Derek Jacobi, End of Watch, Denise Mina
• Radio 4 Saturday Review
• The Guardian Literary Reviews
• Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, aims to build bridges to Kabul with new book

Further Reading

• Freud's Theories and Concepts
• Dream and Ritual Process in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Answers

Whole-Text Activities

• Translating The Seagull: how far can you push Chekhov?
• Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, aims to build bridges to Kabul with new book