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Theseus and Hippolyta reveal their wedding will take place in four days.
Act 1, Scene 1Oberon uses the magic flower nectar on Titania, and Puck mistakenly uses it on Lysander.
Act 2, Scene 2As the mechanicals rehearse, Puck transforms Nick Bottom's head into a donkey head.
Act 3, Scene 1Seeing the confusion of the lovers, Oberon orders Puck to undo the damage.
Act 3, Scene 2Theseus gives Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena, permission to wed.
Act 4, Scene 1Bottom reappears to the mechanicals and informs them their play is "preferred."
Act 4, Scene 2The newlyweds go off to bed, and the fairies appear to bless their marriages.
Act 5, Scene 1| Scene | Summary |
|---|---|
| Act 1, Scene 1 | At his palace, Theseus, the duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, former queen of the Amazons, discuss preparations for their w... Read More |
| Act 1, Scene 2 | At the home of Peter Quince, some tradesmen of Athens—Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Robin Starveling, Tom Snout, and Snug—... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 1 | The next night, King Oberon's fairy servant, Puck (also called Robin Goodfellow), meets another fairy, who is a servant ... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 2 | Titania's fairies sing her to sleep, and then Oberon places the magic flower nectar on her eyelids. Lysander and Hermia ... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 1 | In the woods near the place where Titania is sleeping, the six Athenian tradesmen gather to rehearse the play-within-a-p... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 2 | Elsewhere in the woods, Puck gleefully tells Oberon that after he had transformed one of the "rude mechanicals" into a d... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 1 | As the invisible Oberon watches, Titania praises Bottom's ears, and her fairy servants scratch his head and make him com... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 2 | Quince, Flute, Snout, and Starveling sadly bemoan the disappearance of Bottom. They all agree that they cannot perform t... Read More |
| Act 5, Scene 1 | Back at Theseus's palace, newlyweds Theseus and Hippolyta discuss the events reported by the four lovers. Theseus thinks... Read More |
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