Dream: Assignment 1
- Read over the quarrel scene between Oberon and Titania (Act 2, scene 1) and consider the following:
- What has happened as a result of their fight?
- Why have they met up in the woods?
- What do you think of their reasons for wanting the boy?
- Read over the transformation and tryst scene in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3.1.100-182) and this excerpt from Apuleius’ The Golden Ass.
- Jot down a list of similarities and differences between the two.
- Read Ovid’s version of the Philomel myth.
- Having examined these three texts, discuss your conclusions about the ideas about power, gender, and sex in Shakespeare’s adaptation of these myths.