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A Midsummer Nights Dream - If you were the actor playing Bottom in Act I SceneII, how would you perform the role to achieve a comic effect for your audience?
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If you were the actor playing Bottom in Act I Scene II, how would you perform the role to achieve a comic effect for your audience? Act I Scene II in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", shows the mechanicals assigning roles to one another for their performance in front of the "Duke and Duchess". Throughout the scene, Bottom constantly interrupts Peter Quince as he distributes each of their roles. It is a crossover scene between the methodical lifestyle of the 1st scene involving Hermia and Theseus, yet is neither similar to that nor the following scene of the fairies. There is a sense of order yet there is also an overwhelming sense of chaos. Bottom is a comic character, willing to perform any duty if it ensures the attention of others is solely upon him. To attract the attention of others, I would use a booming and dominant voice over Peter Quince...
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