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2008-12-19 13:59:19 UTC
1. Oberon awakes Titania and transforms Bottom back to a human. Oberon and Titania then make up and love each other again.
2. In the woods, Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus appear and awake the four.
3. Demetrius and Lysander inform the men of their love for Helena and Hermia (respectively).
4. The lords agree to let them marry.
5. Separately, Bottom awakes and remember's the night's occurrences.
6. At dinner, they all hear Quince's ten word, tedious, brief, tragical play.
7. In it, Thisby (played by Flute) and Pyramus (played by Bottom) whisper their love through a chink in a wall (played by Snout).
8. They vow to meet at Ninny's tomb, but a lion (played by Snug) attacks Thisby.
9. Pyramus arrives and finds her scarf, assumes she's dead, and kills himself Thisby arrives to find him dead, and kills herself.
10. After the play, at midnight, all go to bed, then the fairies appear and frolic.
11. In the forest, the troupe of players discuss the logistics of their play.
12. Puck appears and transforms Bottom to have an ***' (donkey's) head.
13. The actors flee, but Titania awakes and falls in love with Bottom and orders her fairy servants to attend to him.
14. Puck observes that Demetrius chases Hermia, yet she accuses him of murdering Lysander, and realizes he gave the flower to the wrong man.
15. Oberon tries to remedy this by anointing Lysander with the flower so he'll fall in love with Helena, and he does.
16. However, now both men love Helena, while she believes both are false.
17. Hermia arrives and Helena accuses her of conspiring with the men to tease her.
18. Oberon, realizing Puck has caused these problems, orders him to make a thick fog to separate the four people and force them into a deep sleep, so the spell can wear off.
19. Demetrius, though, loves Hermia. Helena hopes they will all meet in the forest.
20. Meanwhile, Quince, Bottom, Flute, Starveling, Snug, and Snout organize a play to be performed at Theseus' wedding.