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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

When my cue comes, call me, and I will a...

Overview

Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 4, Scene 1
Time & Place
A wild, tangled forest outside of Athens at daybreak, just as the morning light begins to filter through the trees.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Text

When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho! Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. 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. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the duke: peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death.

Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night's Dream, ed. R.A. Foakes, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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