Puck transforms Bottom's head into that of a donkey as part of his mischief. Bottom's fellow actors flee in fear upon seeing his transformed state. Titania, the fairy queen, awakens and immediately falls in love with Bottom due to Puck's magic. She assigns fairies to serve and care for Bottom, leading him off to her sleeping quarters.
Puck transforms Bottom's head into that of a donkey as part of his mischief. Bottom's fellow actors flee in fear upon seeing his transformed state. Titania, the fairy queen, awakens and immediately falls in love with Bottom due to Puck's magic. She assigns fairies to serve and care for Bottom, leading him off to her sleeping quarters.
Puck transforms Bottom's head into that of a donkey as part of his mischief. Bottom's fellow actors flee in fear upon seeing his transformed state. Titania, the fairy queen, awakens and immediately falls in love with Bottom due to Puck's magic. She assigns fairies to serve and care for Bottom, leading him off to her sleeping quarters.
Puck transforms Bottom's head into that of a donkey as part of his mischief. Bottom's fellow actors flee in fear upon seeing his transformed state. Titania, the fairy queen, awakens and immediately falls in love with Bottom due to Puck's magic. She assigns fairies to serve and care for Bottom, leading him off to her sleeping quarters.
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BOTTOM: Are we all here?
QUINCE: Everyone, come. Sit down and rehearse your parts.
(They sit down. Puck comes out of hiding, but they can’t see him anyway. He giggles and winks at the audience to show he has some mischief in mind.)
QUINCE: Speak, Pyramus! Thisbe, come forward.
BOTTOM: Thisbe, flowers with sweet odious smells—
QUINCE: “Odors,” “odors.”
BOTTOM: —Odors and smells are like your breath, my dearest Thisbe. But what’s that, a voice! Wait here, I’ll be right back!
(Bottom goes behind a bush and Puck follows him.)
FLUTE: May I speak now?
QUINCE: Yes, you are. You’re supposed to show that you understand that Pyramus just went to check on a noise he heard and is coming right back.
FLUTE: Most radiant Pyramus, you are as white as a lily---
QUINCE: Pyramus, your cue is past.
(Bottom comes back in, looking somewhat different. Puck has transformed his head into a donkey’s head, but of course, Bottom doesn’t know it.)
BOTTOM: If I were handsome, my lovely Thisbe, I would still want only you.
QUINCE: Help! It’s a monster! We’re being haunted. Run, everyone, run!
(Quince and the others run off. Puck chases them to be sure they don’t come back. He wants Bottom to be the only one around when Titania wakes up. Bottom doesn’t know why his friends are acting that way.) BOTTOM: Why do they run away?
(Snout comes back in to see if he really saw correctly.)
Snout: Oh, Bottom, you’ve transformed!
(Snout scrambles off as Quince comes back in, crossing himself.)
QUINCE: God bless you, Bottom. You’ve been changed. Reborn.
BOTTOM: I see what they’re up to. They want to make an ass of me, to scare me if they can. But I won’t leave this spot, no matter what they do. I’ll walk up and down and sing a song, so they’ll know I’m not afraid.
(Bottom sings and awakens the fairy queen. She falls in love with him, donkey head and all.)
TITANIA: What angel is this who’s waking me up from my bed of flowers? Please sing again, I know this is the first time I’ve ever seen you, but you’re so wonderful that I can’t help but to swear that I love you.
BOTTOM: I don’t think you’ve got much of a reason about that. But to tell you the truth, reason and love have exceptionally small to do with each other these days.
TITANIA: You’re as wise as you are beautiful.
BOTTOM: No, that isn't right. But if I was smart enough to get out of here, I'd be smart enough to please myself.
(Bottom starts to run away, but Titania casts a spell that glues his feet to the ground.)
TITANIA: Don't waste your time wishing you could leave this forest; you'll be stuck here whether you like it or not I am the king of the season, and I adore you. Join me, I'll assign you fairies as servants.
TITANIA: Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth and Mustardseed!
PEASEBLOSSOM: Ready! COBWEB: And I!
MOTH: And I!
MUSTARDSEED: Where shall we go?
TITANIA: Be kind and courteous to this gentleman. Feed him with apricots and dewberries. Nod to him and do him courtesies.
PEASEBLOSSOM: Hello, mortal!
COBWEB: Hello!
MOTH: Hello!
MUSTARDSEED: Hello!
(All the fairies bow to Bottom.)
TITANIA: Take a good care of him. Please transport him to my sleeping quarters.
(Titania lovingly leads Bottom off, followed by the giggling fairies.)
