A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act II Commentary
Scene i: As with most of Shakespeare's plays, Act II of A Midsummer Night's Dream brings further plot complications, this time in the woods outside of Athens (where Hermia and Lysander and the mechanicals are scheduled to meet). Scene 1 portrays the problems of the fairy world ruled by Titania and Oberon. The first two characters in the scene are Puck (Robin Goodfellow) and one of Titania's fairies (speaking mainly in iambic tetrameter). Through them exposition is given as to the duties of attendant fairies, and, more importantly, the nature of the argument between Oberon and...
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