Dreams

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Methought a serpent eat my heart away, / And you sat smiling at his cruel prey.”

Hermia

Act II, Scene II

“And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow’s eye,

/ Steal me awhile from mine own company.”

Helena

Act III, Scene II

“My Oberon, what visions have I seen! / Methought I was enamored of an ass.”

Titania

Act IV, Scene I

“Methinks I see these things with parted eye, / When everything seems double.”

Hermia

Act IV, Scene I

“Are you sure / That we are awake? It seems to me / That yet we sleep, we dream.”

Demetrius

Act IV, Scene I

“I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.”

Bottom

Act IV, Scene I

“If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended – / That you have but slumbered here / And while these visions did appear.”

Puck

Act V, Scene I