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Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

cruel

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

snake

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

a double meaning: 1) pale, 2) deadly

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

Hermia sarcastically calls the supposed murder a noble, brave action.

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

In the Ptolemic system of astronomy, which was the standard belief of the time, planets and stars were attached to and moved with solid, clear spheres.

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

Hermia is asking what this has to do with Lysander.

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

The First Quarto has “murdered” here, and “murthered” in the next line.

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

Apollo, the god of the sun, was the brother of Diana, the goddess of the moon.

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

bored, as in to have a hole through it

Mar 25, 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III.2

The sense of this complicated sentence is that moonlight will shine through a hole in the earth and show in mid-day to the people on the other side of the globe. “Antipodes” (derived from Greek for “feet opposite”) refers not to the other side of the Earth but to the people who live there. Hermia is saying that something impossible would happen before Lysander would abandon her.