Midsummer Night's Dream Characters

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Puck
- Also known as Robin Goodfellow
- Oberon’s jester
- delights in playing pranks on mortals
- applies the love potion to Lysander instead of Demetrius
- transforms Bottom’s head into that of an ass
Oberon
- The king of the fairies
- wants young Indian prince for a knight
- sends Puck to obtain the love-potion flower
Titania
- The queen of the fairies
- resists the attempts of her husband to make a knight of the young Indian prince that she has been given
- brief, potion-induced love for Nick Bottom
Lysander
- in love with Hermia
- cannot marry her openly because of Egeus
- becomes the victim of misapplied magic and wakes up in love with Helena
Demetrius
- initially in love with Hermia
- ultimately in love with Helena
Hermia
- Egeus’s daughter
- in love with Lysander
- childhood friend of Helena
- Self-conscious about her short stature
Helena
- in love with Demetrius
- was once betrothed to Demetrius
- thinks that Demetrius and Lysander are mocking her when the fairies’ mischief causes them to fall in love with her
Egeus
- Hermia’s father
- brings a complaint against his daughter to Theseus
- gave Demetrius permission to marry Hermia
Theseus
- heroic duke of Athens
- engaged to Hippolyta
- represents power and order throughout the play
Hippolyta
- queen of Amazons
- engaged to Theseus
Nick Bottom
- chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration
- frequently makes silly mistakes and misuses language
- loved by Titania
- head turns into that of an ass
Peter Quince
- carpenter and the nominal leader of the craftsmen’s attempt to put on a play for Theseus’s marriage celebration
- often shoved aside by Bottom
- Quince plays the Prologue
Francis Flute
- chosen to play Thisbe in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration
- speaks his lines in a high, squeaky voice.
Robin Starveling
- chosen to play Thisbe’s mother in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration
- He ends up playing the part of Moonshine.
Tom Snout
- tinker chosen to play Pyramus’s father
- He ends up playing the part of Wall
Snug
- joiner chosen to play the lion
- worries that his roaring will frighten the ladies in the audience
Philostrate

organizes entertainment for Theseus's marriage
Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mustarseed, and Mote

fairies ordered by Titania to serve Bottom

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Midsummer Night's Dream Characters

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English Midsummer Night's Dream Characters

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2010-05-30T22:49:36Z

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