Act 4

Text of Book

Act 4, page 1

Act 4, page 2

Questions

1)	What is this act mainly about?

2)	What does Bottom ask Cobweb to bring him?

3)	Which three plants does Titania use to describe herself embracing Bottom?

4)	What was Titania doing when Oberon met with her?

5)	Which mythological figures does Hippolyta recall hunting with?

6)	What does Theseus assume is the reason for the four youths' presence?

7)	What does Demetrius compare his disappearing love for Hermia to?

8)	After the duke leaves, what does Demetrius doubt?

9)	Where does Bottom ask the other actors to meet him?

10)	What does Oberon mean in the quote below? "Seest thou this sweet sight? Her dotage now I do begin to pity."

11)	What does Theseus mean in the quote below? "How comes this gentle concord in the world, That hatred is so far from jealousy, To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?"

12)	What does Starveling mean in the quote below? "He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported."

13)	Look where Oberon tells Titania, "We the globe can compass soon, / Swifter than the wandering moon." What does "compass" mean in this context?

14)	Look where Hippolyta, recalling the past, says "I never heard / So musical a discord, such sweet thunder." What does "discord" mean in this context?

15)	Look where Bottom remarks that "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." What does "conceive" mean in this context?

16)	Were there any events that weren't clear to you?