Allusion in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Objective: Complete research on allusion in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by identifying and interpreting allusion, researching its origin and other uses of the allusion, and analyzing the usage of the specific allusion in context. 1. Choose one of the following allusions that are used within the play: *The Numbers refer to the Act.Scene.Line of the text using the Class Set of the play. You will have to skim around that area to find the same lines in the full-text link on my web site. Allusion Diana (1.1.73) Marry (1.2.11) Cupid (1.1.170) & (2.1.155-165) Phoebus (1.2.32) Venus (1.1.171) Ninus (3.1.97) Dido (1.1.173) Antipodes (3.2.55) Aeneas (1.1.174) Taurus (3.2.141) Ariadne (2.1.80) Acheron (3.2.357) Neptune (2.1.126) Aurora’s Harbinger (3.2.380) Cadmus (4.1.98) St. Valentine (4.1.140-141) Jove (5.1.177) Thracian singer – Orpheus (5.1.49) Robin Goodfellow - puck (1.2.32-57 mainly) Sisters Three – Three fates (5.1.339) Pyramus and Thisby (1.2.12) Queen Elizabeth (2.1.10 and 2.1.158) Queen of the Amazons – Hippolyta (1.1.16) Griffin (2.1.232)
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