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aCTIVITy 4.15
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And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail’d with him. And are you grown so high in his esteem;
295 Because I am so dwarfish and so low?
How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;
INdepeNdeNT How low am I? I am not yet so low readING lINk
But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. HELENA I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,
300 Let her not hurt me: I was never curst; I have no gift at all in shrewishness;
Read and Connect
Read an excerpt from another Shakespearean play classified as a comedy. Compare and contrast the use of punctuation in your
I am a right maid for my cowardice: reading to the excerpt from
Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,
Because she is something lower than myself, 305 That I can match her.
HERMIA Lower! hark, again.
Second Read
• Reread the scene to answer these text-dependent question.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Key Ideas and Details: What details in the text should a director consider when casting Helena and Hermia?
Working from the Text
2. Refer to the unknown words or phrases you circled and use reference books or online reference sources to define the words in context. Next to each word you circled, write a synonym or create a paraphrase in modern English.
3. Write a summary of this scene.
4. Reread the text orally with your group.
5. As you listen to the text being read a third time, visualize how the characters would be moving, gesturing, and speaking. Write comments, draw pictures, or stand to act what you are visualizing.
Check Your Understanding
Explain how this scene is intended to be comical on stage. What elements of comedy are represented?
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Note the similarities and differences in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
my Notes
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forsooth: indeed; used to express surprise or indignation
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