Midsummer nights dream

• Duke Theseus prepares for his marriage to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, but is interrupted by a courtier, Egeus, who asks for the Duke's intervention in a dispute between Egeus and his daughter, Hermia.
• Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, whom Egeus has chosen for her, because she loves a gentleman named Lysander.
• The Duke offers Hermia two options: she must either die or accept a celibate life as a nun in Diana's temple.
• Lysander and Hermia plan to elope and share their secret with Helena, Hermia's friend.
• Helena is desperately in love with Demetrius, who seems to have abandoned her in favor of Hermia.
• Nearby, Oberon, King of the Fairies, has recently quarreled with his queen, Titania, over a magical child she acquired from one of her waiting women.
• Oberon begins to plot a way to get revenge on Titania for her disobedience.
• After an afternoon of being pampered by Titania's fairies, Bottom falls asleep beside her.
• Oberon restores Titania's sight and wakes her, thank goodness.
• Puck, Oberon's fairy servant, is sent to fetch a purple flower with juice that makes people fall in love with the next creature they see.
• Titania expresses her dismay at the sight of Bottom, but reconciles with Oberon and gives him the little Indian prince for his page.
• Oberon overhears Demetrius mistreating Helena and tells Puck to anoint 'the Athenian', so Demetrius will fall in love with the first person that he sees.
• Bottom's ass head is removed, and he returns to the city to rejoin his friends as they prepare to perform their play.
• Puck mistakes the Athenian and puts the flower juice on the eyes of the sleeping Lysander.
• The lovers are woken by Theseus and Hippolyta's hunting party.
• When Lysander is woken by Helena, he immediately falls in love with her and rejects Hermia.
• Lysander sees Hermia and falls in love with her once again.
• Demetrius, still under the spell of the flower juice, pursues Helena, while Hermia is jealous and confused about the lack of attention paid to her.
• Puck places restorative juice on Lysander's eyes.
• Oberon is the king of the fairies.
• Titania is the queen of the fairies and the wife of Oberon.
• Puck is a mischievous fairy who serves Oberon.
• Cobweb and Mustard seed are fairy servants.
• Moth and Peaseblossom are fairy servants.
• Literary:

     - Pyramus and Thisbe: The play within the play, performed by the mechanicals, is a humorous adaptation of the tragic love story of Pyramus and Thisbe from Ovid's "Metamorphoses."

     - Shakespeare's Contemporary Writers: The play also makes subtle references to Shakespeare's contemporaries and their works. For example, the use of 'a Midsummer madness' might allude to other plays of the time that explored madness or supernatural elements.
• Historical:

     - Theseus and Hippolyta: These characters are drawn from Greek mythology. Theseus was a heroic figure known for defeating the Minotaur, while Hippolyta was the Queen of the Amazons.

     - Titania and Oberon: These characters' names are derived from medieval and Renaissance folklore, but they are also connected to Titania and Oberon, the fairy king and queen, in English folklore.

     - Puck (Robin Goodfellow): Puck is a mischievous and clever spirit derived from English folklore. His character has been referenced in various mythological tales over time.
• The shape ing of a text (a text in a text) 

  => very common 

  1. 1. Appropriation (reimagined and slightly different) : adaption 
• 1. 2. Allusion (references from other texts) : literary, cultural, biblical, historical
• 1. 3. Parody (pokes fun at something to entertain the audience) 
• Resolution: the right people fall in love with the right people and they live happily ever after
• Exposition: the introduction of the two lovebirds (Hermia and Lysander) the person that is going to marry hermia due to her fathers will (Demetrius) the girl that is madly in love with Demetrius (Helena)
• Inciting incident: hermia and Lysander don’t want to separate so the run away together
• Climax: everyone in the woods falling in love with the wrong people.
• Decent of the action: puck acknowledges his mistakes and fixes his mistakes.
• As well as the fight between Hermia and Helena.
• Increased action: puck puts the love spell in the wrong people's eyes (Demetrius and Lysander).
• exposition : the main characters, tine and stettings are introduced
• inciting incident: the circumstances that push the protagonist to move
• increased action : theres a complication that makes the problem the protagonist has to solve more complex. new characters can be introduced
• climax : occurs in the middle of the story and is the part of greatest tension between the protagonist and the antagonist