Video SparkNotes: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream summary
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Check out Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Video SparkNote: Quick and easy A Midsummer Night's Dream synopsis, analysis, and discussion of major characters and themes in the play. For more A Midsummer Night's Dream resources, go to www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd. For a translation of the entire play into modern English, check out No Fear Shakespeare at nfs.sparknotes.com/msnd.
My last three braincells can’t be bothered to remember the names of all the characters and who loves who
me
If you aren't very good with names, then looks like you are in for one hell of a semester.
TheCaffeineDreams I don’t know the names
Of course my English teacher makes us do a homework for the most confusing play ever
SpaceMonkey Vlogs why is that funny?
lol no, wait until you have to read the ancient greeks...
Lindsay Rendall our teacher is giving us a final on this play
And you thought your love life was complicated
+James Michel just ask the fairies to solve your complicated love life
Mr. Handel-Bar Hey, at least you're not an Indian prince being held captive by the fairy queen 😊. On a more serious note, Shakespeare lived during a time when Sanskrit texts were just starting to be translated into English, so people would have had a limited understanding of Hindu beliefs. The closest thing to a fairy in Indian mythology is a yaksha, a species of nymphs that lives near bodies of water. They play an important role in the Mahabharata, because they reveal the most interesting truth in the world.
😂😂
lolll
Ha
imagine actually understanding this.
lol right
@Atharv Khatri :/ just agree and dont piss people off
@Atharv Khatri u can just agree even tho u still know it i know it but i still would said "lol"
@Atharv Khatri also its "brainless"
I consider myself pretty good with “hard to get stories” but I had to rewatch this to even get a grasp on what is happening
I think it would´ve been funnier if Demetrius accidentaly fell in love with Lysander.
Yeah that's what I am thinking 🤣
The fact you actually understand what’s going on
@@kati1716 it's really just a convoluted romcom.
Ikr that would be way funnier
@@kati1716 its not that hard once you get ur head around it if you read a lot if books it’s easier to understand
I literally understand the plot 1000 times more after watching this 7 minute video than I did from spending hours reading the actual book.
literally
The book was so confusing for me and then I watched the movie and it all made sense. I was reading the acknowledgments thinking it was the book. It was all gibberish 😅
"Robin takes off Bottom's asshead and the fairies do a dance."
Possibly the best quote in history
Lol
An even quicker summary for yall:
Lysander and Hermia are truly in love.
Egeus (Hermias dad) wants Hermia to marry demetrius.
Hermia and Lysander decide to run away
Helena tells Demetrius where they are going.
Demetrius follows them.
Oberon tells puck to get the love potion and uses it on titania
Oberon sees Demetrius being rude to helena
Oberon tells puck to use the potion on an athenian man (demetrius)
Puck accidentally uses it on Lysander.
Now Lysander and Demetrius love Helena
Lysander and Demetrius say they will fight to see who gets Helena
Puck arrives and makes everyone love the right person
Lysander loves Hermia
Demetrius loves Helena
The End.
huh
OMG after all that it's still confusing am I the only one here
Thanks i need this for a school assignment... you saved hours
The video is wrong??
@@angelicaviscara7931 No it's just shorter and saves time
Hello Random person scrolling through comments Hope you do good on your test
thanks lmao
thanks g
Thank you
thanks dude
thanks you too
i cant believe i'm doing a assessment on this tomorrow
jerrish jayden ...
jerrish jayden hahaha i am too. As always i left it to the last minute
Same
Feel ur pain bro
Wish me luck
Got a bloody assignment on this. I must say this was really helpful and made it a lot easier to recount everything. Thanks
+1 And I can’t really understood the words in the original book. lol
How the f did people back in the day understand stories like this? There are so many subplots and characters it's confusing
? I understand it. Plus I have the book
+Ashley South I've been into Shakespeare since i was 11 and I understand all of it. I know, I'm a nerd🤓
because this was their life
chocolate chip marshmallow nobody cares
Saoirse Rosenstock ur mean... :'(
Thank God I found this. Reading the play was putting me to sleep
+Aliese Martinez um
Lol....
lol me too
Maybe you should read more than. So sad nobody read anymore
@@hadassahgutier midsummer nights dream was made to be enjoyed in play form. Just reading the script will of course be boring because that’s not how the story was meant to be consumed
And I though love triangles were complicated, here comes Shakespeare with a love square.
Does anyone realize that this is the same play that they attempted to perform on the Suite Life of Zack and Cody?
ahahah oh my gosh yesss
Yes right 😂😂😂😂
omg yes , the one with young Selena Gomez!! cute
Could you give an even simpler one for people... who have low brain cells... not taking about me... just random... humans...
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Doesnt get easier than this really....
cliff notes has a good video i think it’s more understandable:)
@Ethan O'Connor Just copied and pasted that into my work...hahaha....
anyone else here because of a test
good luck
god speed sir
+GodBlessNYC fato shut it
Lol.
yes a boring test
"Then he puts the love-juice in Demetrius' eyes." I have an English exam in a few hours, for which I am royally fucked, but that relieved a small bit of stress.
Did you do well?
yeah how'd u do? lol we're so late
Haha thanks, I can't remember so it can't have gone too badly. Thanks for checking in fellas
@@Spodo_Komodo Wow, replying after almost 10 years! That's some real dedication.
how did u do i
have test in 2 hours
whats ur job now
This is why I don't trust fairies.
I feel bad for those who don't watch this simply for their own pleasure, interest, curiosity, or whatever, and actually have to memorise all this. Must be so exhausting and frustrating ☺️
hasdjshja shut upppppp
Yeah i have to memorise it
kill me
hahaha. hahah. yeah that would be. funny.
you just know it...
I need a flowchart to keep up with this
NorthernCultureWarrior agreed
Even watching this confusing to me.... These complicated love life is much for a 14 years old boy....
Edit: wow o was dumb
I have to do a flow chart for hw... I’m 12
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@@dnghn.design Try 12
Damn my procrastinating, well, off to youtube to solve stuff.
Always lmao
Isabel Jones CHRISTMAS
Ugh how come SO many people do this kind of stuff? Why can’t you pay attention in class?! So sad 😞
I wish it was that simple, honey
@@atlasvellichor It is that simple but I’m sure you try your best
This has helped me with my homework sooooooo much. Thanks for breaking it down. It is waaaaaaay easier to understand! Xx
I didn't actually read it lol!
Great! Good for english
big gob blog OMG! Im doing my homework about a midsummer nights dream as well
same :). studing for test.
+Windwalker 95 *studying
I need a FLOW CHART to FULLY understand this....
I’m watching this 5 minutes before the test lmao
Follow up I failed the test lmaooo
Its a 6:45 min video 🧐
Don’t do that. That is just sad that you didn’t study, what did you do instead? Ugh I hate when idiots do this kind of stuff.
@@hadassahgutier bc we dont want to waste our time on some dumb ass story that is going to do nothing for me.
@@thatbluehoe7868 it's still an important part of literature. It expands your vocabulary and the audiobook takes only 2 hours... you can basically listen to that while you scroll through your phone and NOT fail a test (like the person above you did)
This made me pass my exam.
lol same
lol
Ahhh I love literature so much! We're reading this in class right now and it's so fun because we're reading in parts, and now that I'm reading it for a second time I've come to appreciate it more.
Help me w my assignment, pleaseeee
Those insulting this are obviously trolls. I doubt you haven't even learned the story because this is exactly what Shakespeare wrote.
Why is this considered a happy ending? Dude is one antidote away from realising he doesn't actualy love her
I read this in 8th grade. The Shakespeare’s language was confusing af so my teacher gave me and a few other kids a modern English script of this play. God bless her 😂😂
Same with me ;-;
Spoiler alert: Every one cheats on each other, they get married anyways.
0:14 that face u make when u realise u have homework before going to bed
When you're here for entertainment purposes and wander through the comments only to find crammers 😂😂😂
Lol uuggghhh I miss thoes days!!!💔😭
those
XD me!
I'm seeing people here watching a SUMMARY for a test. Gonna need a lot more than that lol
What’s wrong with you
SparkNotes has since ever saved my grades in school! Thank you SparkNotes!! :D
2:54 Close your eyes and listen.
thank you so much! I have a big test and have been trying to look for a summary like this for hours! REALLY HELPS
oh my god, this helped me SO MUCH with my drama assignment!
This is an amazing video, you just got +1 Sub!
silliest story ever however the video has helped clear the confusion and also given me the full story which iv never really heard before. thankyou.
this helped me so much with understanding my monologue for my drama exam!
We are doing this play at school! I'm so excited~ I wanted to get a better grip on what it was about. Cant wait for auditions!~
LIFE SAVER THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!💗💗💗
NARUTOOOOOOOOO
OK THIS MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE!!! I DONT UNDERSTAND ANTHING IN SHAKESPEAREN ENGLISH AND BRO WHEN THE CHARACTERS FIGHT, THEY GET LIKE TWO WHOLE PAGES WORTH OF WORDS BEING THROWN AROUND ASDKFJASDFJHASDKFJHASDFH
Neth Ekanayake, I have to do Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for our school's play 😢
@@ilhansharp1138 good luck bro 😭
@@nethekanayake4570Ekanayake Thanks Neth! My cast is doing OK! We're in the second week of working on this play! Directing High School plays is a lot more work than I thought 😁!
who? what? Jesus this is complicated. How can anyone follow this?
You’re not the only one watching this in quarantine
Are you?
When you thought Kdrama and Cdrama love triangles were confusing....
Here is the shortest summary you will get -
(Someone already made one but it wasn’t very clear). Here goes -
The main rulers of Athen are Duke Theseus and Hippolyta. Their wedding is going to happen. (Not important characters)
Now Egeus (Father of Hermia) walks in to court and tells the duke the situation. He wants his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius. Demetrius also wants to marry her. But she doesn’t love this guy Demetrius. She loves Lysander and Lysander loves her. Now Demetrius ex is called Helena, she still loves him.
So Lys (Lysander) and Herm (Hermia) love each other.
Dem (Demetrius) loves Herm. Hel (Helena) loves Dem.
The duke tells Herm to obey her dad and marry Derm. She doesn’t want to so she elopes with Lysander to the woods.
Herm feels sorry for Hel and tells her about her eloping plans. Hel tells Lys about this just so she can talk to him. Dem, on hearing this heads to the woods too.
Now in a different part of town some workmen are practising for a play that will take place at the kings wedding. The leader of the workmen is Bottom. He is an enthusiastic talkative chap. They all plan to meet in the woods for practice.
Now at the woods, we have another scene taking place - The king fairy Oberon and the Queen fairy having a fight over the custody of a boy. Oberon decides to take revenge on Titania. He tells puck (a mischievous fairy) to get a love potion. When applied on a sleeping persons eyes, they will fall in love with the first person they see when they wake up.
Now Oberon is going to put this on Titania, hen he sees Dem and Hel walk into the forest. He clearly see that Hel loved dem but dem doesn’t love Hel so he tells puck to put the portion on dem so that he falls in love with Hel . Meanwhile he goes to put the portion on titania.
Now here is where it gets crazy.
Lys and Herm enter the forest and sleep. Puck mistakes Lys for dem and puts the portion on Lys. Lys wakes up and sees Hel so he leaves Herm and falls in love with Hel.
Now the workmen led by bottom come to the woods and start practising their play. Puck hates bottoms acting and turns bottoms head into a donkeys head. Meanwhile Oberon puts the portion on Titania. She wakes up and sees ass head bottom. She falls in love with him.
Oberon is happy with puck for titania And donkey head love. But he finds out that puck put portion Lys instead of dem. Oberon himself correctly makes dem love hel with the portion.
Hel and Herm are fighting with each other. And Lys and dem are fighting for Herm.
Oberon sorts the muddle out -
Oberon Removes Lysander love portion effect. So Lys stops loving Hel and returns to Herm.
Removes titanias love portion effect so she stops loving bottom. She lets Oberon have custody of the kid.
Oberon also tells puck to remove bottoms donkey head curse.
So everything is sorted. Lys and Herm love each other. Dem and Hel love each other. Oberon got custody of the kid. Bottom is back to normal.
Then the duke and his wife enter the forest and see these four . The duke relents after seeing dem love Hel. So LYSANDER marries HERMIA. DEMETRIUS loves HELENA. THE END!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate you Shakespeare!!!!!!!!
Define 'short' 🤣
here for english exams
I hated studying or reading dead English literature for my PG course even I am a teacher of English! Now I have taken special interest in it just because of video sparknotes bringing it shorter alive....thanks a lot....
This was very helpful for my homework. :))))))
+Jimbo Galaxy i know!
Ahh Shakespeare's true beauty lies in his comedy and beautiful magical/natural worlds... They have always enchanted me much more than his overrated tragedies/histories/romances... Loved the artwork !
I decided to watch this because I have an English test on it tomorrow....Not looking forward to it watching this alone was torture I cant even imagine what the test will be like! Well at least its Friday tomorrow!....I just wanna stay at home and watch anime....D-=
Same! But mine is one Wednesday in two days.
me too
test tommorow
Same I have a test tomorrow all about this
Well the love quadrilateral in this play is pretty much like every shojou anime ever, so...
This video is actually VERY well done for something that's 11Years Old!
omg dis was SO helpful! :D thanks so much for making this vid! :D
sparknotes saves the day again
THANK YOU I HAVE BEEN CONFUSED IN CLASS SO MUCH
i am still confused
@@cocoa261 i'm STILL confused
A very helpful video. A complicated story told very easily. Thank you.
fuxkkkkk assigment for this is due in the next hour kill me
Same but it's for Theater???
Me too O.O
lol, three years later and i'm in the same boat
we read the book or story version of this in 5th grade. oh my gosh this story was a freaking fever dream. half the class was so confused through out the whole story.
Would recommend.
Whos here coz of the corona and there doing home school😂
Me
Correct
mhn
Omg thankyou so much. I have auditions coming up, and this has helped me heaps!! THANKYOU
I think I now better understand "dead poet's society" movie with Robin Wiliams. Great job recanting... though i still don't know who is who bc of all the strange names I've never heard before :/
thank you SO MUCH!!! i did not pay any attention when watched this play for school. YOU SAVED MY DAY!!!!!!
This could be the most complicated play of Shakespeare of all the time. Alas!
Thanks, im doing this play tommorow and I was thinking about be demitrious. I just needed a quick overview of this to clear everything up. Thanks again.
You know it’s a Shakespeare comedy if less than literally every character mentioned dies :)
Thank the lord for this video!!! Finally, I understand what the play is on about!!! I'm currently performing this in school but never really understood it! Thank you!
I have an exam for today, and i didn't even know what the hell is this play, gg
same
lol
lol
I was supposed to read this for high school but I skipped the reading and cheated since all the answers are online LOL
But I hear good things about his plays and now I see I've been missing out!
u wot m8
Too late to help me with any exams.... But helped me remember nobody is able to really love someone who loves them absolutely. I am never convinced I'm with the right girl until she betrays me and leaves with a friend or something. That's when I know she was the one. And on and on it goes. The most ridiculous play ever.
who the fuck sleeps in the woods
+etc2913 people from the year 1000's above and below
+etc2913 i do!
+etc2913 me
Squirrels, bears, ants, birds,humans,
titania
that was one of the biggest clusterfucks i've ever seen it's glorious!
i feel accomplished actually understanding any of this after a third rewatch
The Soap Opera of Shakespeare....
The soap opera is Romeo and Juliet.
“ *rObIn tAkEs oFf bOtToMs* 🅰🆂🆂 🅷🅴🅰🅳”
Oooor....these videos can serve as a useful refresher or basic review for students, like me, who are studying for exams..Quick and easy isn't always lazy, but is sometimes just efficiency (especially when A midsummer night's
dream is just one of the many books on your exam)
Watching this so I have somewhat of a clue with what I'm getting into with auditioning for this.
I really want to get Hermia and I want my crush to get Lysander (he doesn't know he's my crush) so we can hold hand and possibly kiss (Most likely there will not be a kiss scene because its teens ) Wish me luck. it's on the 15th!
Emma Grace did you get the part?
@@Gilded-girl Thank you so much
Emma Grace very cool! Things never seem to work out like we plan , huh? I will definitely check it out. Thanks 😊
@@Gilded-girl Yeah sometimes its for the better. You made my day even better (today is my birthday)
@@Slothz_ HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I hope you have an awesome day!
I am unconscious after listening it. Tomorrow is my test and I don’t know shit.😵😵
I’m here cuz of school :////////////.
Highly recommend video, easy to follow, appropriate for kids since it's a really weird play and summary s perfect
I remember playing Helena in middle school...it was emabarrassing but I did a great job and I feel so bad for Helena...💔
SAME SIS!!
My whole drama class clowned me when we got our parts but when it came time to perform i did a better job than everyone else.
what
Everyone in the comments say its confusing to understand but this is way better than reading the book. In class the teacher had to translate the book and if she didn't do that I wouldn't of understood a thing.
SparkNotes Rock!!!! :D
Man you are an absolute legend!! Thank you so much!!
Hope I will get a 10 today at school.
this would make a good red dwarf episode. seriously though I need a cliffnotes for these cliffnotes...
I kinda felt bad that everyone in here is just watching for a test or an assessment like why ppl these days just wanna watch keeping up with the kardashians and listen to Migos🤷🏽♀️😂
Cause they aren’t caught up in a love pentagon 😭 like who understands this story
@@kati1716 ong this story is so fucking stupid idk why we even gotta learn this dumb shit
I really needed this for my griffin final
Who else here for school work 🙄✋
Wow from 5 years everyone is stuck by this story but all of u are done with it and I have to struggle tomorrow
Dude, “Titania” is NOT pronounced “ Ti- Tain-is”. It’s pronounced “Ti- tahn-ia”.
"Bless thee, Bottom! Bless thee! Thou art translated!"
online school lol
This will help me with my secondary school English Assessment!!!! Thanks ALOT!!!! :D
my name is Helena 😎
Crystal Bieber i don't know 😢 he ran away from me
So basically nobody likes you
Simon yea
Simon lol thats harsh
Thanks im doing a play today about this and this helped alot
THIS IS SO CONFUSING
Dude SERIOUSELY I'm a little girl and I did a play about this I was hermia and I understood everything you dipshit
RageSniper2468 little kids are disgusting. Do we care you know??? You didn't even spell seriously correctly. Smh.
RageSniper2468 where did u learn how to say dipshit? lol.
John, Mark & Matt; Thank You So Much!
the mischievous fairy is called puck!!