A mid summers night dream?

I pray thee, give it me.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:

There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,

Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;

And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,

Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:

And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,

And make her full of hateful fantasies.

Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:

A sweet Athenian lady is in love

With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;

But do it when the next thing he espies

May be the lady: thou shalt know the man

By the Athenian garments he hath on.

Effect it with some care, that he may prove

More fond on her than she upon her love:

And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.



can you tell me what this solioquy means, why its important in the play, language echinques and how this engages the auidence.

A mid summers night dream?
If this is your homework, you should be working it out for yourself. I don't think it is a soliloquoy as Oberon is talking to Puck. If you look at it more closely you will see that Oberon is describing a place and situation to Puck, asking him to do several things, which of course he is also describing to the audience at the same time. Try and think why it is important (clue - what happens when things go wrong). Try and use your imagination (in the same way that the audience in a theatre might do). Good Luck!