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  "slug": "a-midsummer-nights-dream",
  "title": "A Midsummer Night's Dream",
  "author": "William Shakespeare",
  "language": "en",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "Theseus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Duke of Athens, betrothed to Hippolyta and host of the wedding festivities. He rules on Hermia’s marriage dispute and orders the lovers’ marriages."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hippolyta",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus. She joins him in welcoming the lovers and attending the wedding festivities."
    },
    {
      "name": "Philostrate",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Master of the Revels to Theseus, who organizes the wedding entertainment and presents the amateur play."
    },
    {
      "name": "Egeus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Hermia’s father, who wants her to marry Demetrius and invokes Athenian law when she refuses."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hermia",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Daughter of Egeus, in love with Lysander and initially pursued by Demetrius. She flees Athens with Lysander and is eventually freed to marry him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Demetrius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Athenian suitor whom Egeus favors for Hermia. He once loved Helena, then pursues Hermia, but ultimately returns to Helena and marries her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lysander",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Athenian in love with Hermia, who plans to flee with her. Under a fairy charm he briefly loves Helena, but the charm is undone and he marries Hermia."
    },
    {
      "name": "Helena",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "In love with Demetrius and Hermia’s childhood friend. She follows Demetrius into the woods and eventually wins his love and marries him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lysander’s widow aunt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A wealthy, childless aunt who lives outside Athens and regards Lysander as her only son. She offers the lovers a refuge beyond Athenian law."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nedar",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Helena’s father, mentioned by Lysander and Egeus; he does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter Quince",
      "aliases": [
        "Quince"
      ],
      "description": "A carpenter who organizes the amateur actors and directs their play for Theseus’s wedding."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nick Bottom",
      "aliases": [
        "Bottom"
      ],
      "description": "A weaver who plays Pyramus in Quince’s play. Puck gives him an ass’s head, and Titania falls in love with him under a spell."
    },
    {
      "name": "Francis Flute",
      "aliases": [
        "Flute"
      ],
      "description": "A bellows-mender who plays Thisbe in the amateur play."
    },
    {
      "name": "Robin Starveling",
      "aliases": [
        "Starveling"
      ],
      "description": "A tailor who is assigned the role of Thisbe’s mother, and later Moonshine, in the amateur play."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tom Snout",
      "aliases": [
        "Snout"
      ],
      "description": "A tinker who is assigned Pyramus’s father, and later Wall, in the amateur play."
    },
    {
      "name": "Snug",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A joiner assigned the lion’s role in the amateur play."
    },
    {
      "name": "Oberon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "King of the fairies and Titania’s husband. He uses a love charm to make Titania surrender the Indian boy she is raising, then blesses the wedding household."
    },
    {
      "name": "Titania",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Queen of the fairies and Oberon’s wife. She raises the son of a deceased mortal friend and briefly falls under a spell that makes her love Bottom."
    },
    {
      "name": "Puck",
      "aliases": [
        "Robin Goodfellow",
        "Hobgoblin"
      ],
      "description": "A mischievous fairy who serves Oberon and uses magic to meddle with the lovers. He mistakenly charms Lysander, gives Bottom an ass’s head, and later helps restore order."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fairy serving Titania",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed fairy who serves Titania and tells Puck about the quarrel between Oberon and the queen."
    },
    {
      "name": "Titania’s Indian boy",
      "aliases": [
        "changeling boy",
        "lovèd boy",
        "page"
      ],
      "description": "The son of a mortal woman who was Titania’s friend. Titania raises him after his mother dies, and Oberon wants him as a page."
    },
    {
      "name": "Indian boy’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Titania’s vot’ress"
      ],
      "description": "A mortal woman who was devoted to Titania and died after giving birth to the boy Titania raises. She is described as Titania’s friend."
    },
    {
      "name": "Corin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure Oberon allegedly impersonated while playing pipes and singing to Phillida; mentioned by Titania and does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Phillida",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure to whom Titania alleges Oberon sang in the guise of Corin; she does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Perigenia",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whom Titania says Theseus left after ravishing her; she is mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Aegles",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whom Titania says Theseus loved after breaking faith with Ariadne and Antiopa; she is mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ariadne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whom Titania says Theseus was unfaithful to; she is mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Antiopa",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whom Titania says Theseus was unfaithful to; she is mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cupid",
      "aliases": [
        "Love"
      ],
      "description": "A personified god of love whose arrow strikes a flower and gives it the power to inspire sudden love. Oberon recounts seeing Cupid aim at a vestal."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fair vestal",
      "aliases": [
        "imperial votress"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed chaste woman whom Cupid’s arrow fails to strike; Oberon says she passes by in maiden meditation. She is mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Neptune",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A sea god invoked in Titania’s account of sitting with the Indian boy’s mother on the shore; mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Venus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A goddess invoked in comparisons of beauty and love; she does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Diana",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A goddess whose altar is named as a place where Hermia could vow to remain unmarried, and whose herb can undo Cupid’s flower charm."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pyramus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A lover in the amateur play who dies for love of Thisbe. Bottom plays him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Thisbe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Pyramus’s beloved in the amateur play. Flute plays her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wall",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A character in the amateur play who represents the wall through whose crack Pyramus and Thisbe speak. Snout plays the role."
    },
    {
      "name": "Moonshine",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A character in the amateur play who represents moonlight. Starveling plays the role."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lion",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A character in the amateur play whose appearance frightens Thisbe. Snug plays the role."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mistress Squash",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Cobweb’s mother, mentioned by Bottom; she does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Master Peascod",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Peaseblossom’s father, mentioned by Bottom; he does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peaseblossom",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A fairy who attends Titania and is assigned to serve Bottom during his enchantment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cobweb",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A fairy who attends Titania and is assigned to serve Bottom during his enchantment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Moth",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A fairy who attends Titania and is assigned to serve Bottom during his enchantment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mustardseed",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A fairy who attends Titania and is assigned to serve Bottom during his enchantment."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hercules",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A mythic hero whom Hippolyta recalls accompanying on a hunt in Crete; Theseus also calls him his kinsman. He is mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cadmus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure Hippolyta recalls accompanying on a hunt in Crete; he is mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "The forester",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed person Theseus orders an attendant to find before the hunt; does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "First Fairy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed fairy who sings to protect Titania from harmful creatures and spells."
    },
    {
      "name": "Second Fairy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed fairy who announces that all is well and tells another fairy to stand sentinel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fairy sentinel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed fairy assigned to keep watch while Titania sleeps."
    },
    {
      "name": "Attendant sent to find the forester",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed attendant of Theseus, sent to find the forester before the hunt."
    },
    {
      "name": "Helen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman whose beauty is invoked as a comparison by Theseus; mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Prologue",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed performer who introduces the amateur play and explains its story to the wedding guests."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ninus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person whose tomb is named as the lovers’ meeting place in the amateur play; he does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Limander",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure Pyramus names as a comparison for his faithfulness to Thisbe; mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Shafalus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure Pyramus names in a comparison of faithfulness to Procrus; mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Procrus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure Thisbe names in a comparison of faithfulness to Shafalus; mentioned but does not appear directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hecate",
      "aliases": [
        "triple Hecate"
      ],
      "description": "A goddess whose team the fairies are said to follow through the darkness; she does not appear directly."
    }
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