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“I pray thee gentle mortal, sing again...”

“I pray thee gentle mortal, sing again...”. Reading the text. Before we start to analyse each scene in detail (step 2) we need to read for overall understanding and context . This will allow you to:

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“I pray thee gentle mortal, sing again...”

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  1. “I pray thee gentle mortal, sing again...”

  2. Reading the text • Before we start to analyse each scene in detail (step 2) we need to read for overall understanding and context. • This will allow you to: • add to your notes from your film viewing on structure and effect (AO1: ‘informed response’) • add to your AO4 notes and begin to apply them more specifically to the text (AO4: ‘significance and influence of contexts’) • create a foundation to build on with your in-depth AO2 analysis (AO1: ‘informed response’)

  3. After each scene... 1. Make notes on the characters, setting and events of the scene + any immediately obvious AO4

  4. 2. Add to your timeline for each of the four plots, noting where they overlap and/or meet 3. Answer the questions on your sheet

  5. 4. Research your given reference or topic and prepare to share your findings with the class Act 1 Scene 1: Ancient Greece and Athens Theseus Hippolyta and the Amazons Marriage in Shakespeare’s time Diana, goddess of the moon and hunting Cupid and his arrows (esp. lead arrows) + “painted blind” Venus’ doves “the Carthage queen” (Dido) and “false Troyan” (Aeneas) Phoebe

  6. Act 1 Scene 2 • The names of the ‘mechanicals’ – • Bottom • Quince • Snug • Flute • Snout • Starveling • Pyramus and Thisbe • ‘Ercles’ = Hercules • ‘Phibbus’ = Phoebus, the sun god • The three Fates • ‘French crowns have no hair at all’ – the ‘French disease’ and baldness

  7. Act 2 Scene 1 Robin Goodfellow/Puck Elizabethan ideas of fairies and spirits Changelings Corin and Phillida (pastoral poetry) Theseus’ women: Perigenia, Aegles, Ariadne and Antiopa Hiems Neptune ‘the imperial votress’ (Queen Elizabeth I) Apollo and Daphne

  8. Act 2 Scene 2 Philomel Symbolism of the serpent

  9. Act 3 Scene 1 ‘eight and six’ as a ballad form The ‘man in the moon’, his lantern and bush of thorns Ninus’ tomb (Ninah, the founder of Nineveh) Symbolism of an ass head Cuckold Elizabethan use of peaseblossom/peasecod, mustardseed, moth and cobweb

  10. Act 3 Scene 2 Elizabethan beliefs about sighs and love Tartar’s bow Acheron ‘Aurora’s harbinger’ and Aurora the goddess

  11. Act 4 Scene 1 ‘the tongs and the bones’ Hercules and Cadmus ‘hounds of Sparta’ ‘Thessalian bulls’ 1 Corinthians 2: 9-10

  12. Act 4 Scene 2 ‘sixpence’ in Shakespeare’s time

  13. Act 5 Scene 1 Helen of Troy The Lapiths and the Centaurs Orpheus and the Bacchae Spenser’s ‘The Tears of the Muses’ ‘Limander’ = Leander and ‘Helen’ = Hero ‘Shafalus to Procrus’ = Cephalus and Procris Bergamesque dance (Bergamo, Italy) Hecate – in ‘triple’ form (Luna/Cynthia; Diana; Proserpina)

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