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A Midsummer Night's Dream Philostrate
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Shakespeare may have used this character to poke fun at play censorship in London at the time.
Master of Ceremony
Master of the Revels
Party Planner
In the beginning of the play, Philostrate establishes the important role Theseus plays in society because decides the fate of many people, including the four lovers.
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Male or Female
Played in a variety of ways
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ACT I
Theseus
Go, Philostrate,
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments,
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth.
Turn melanochy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp.
[Philostrate exits]
Act V
- Philostrate is in charge of organizing events and coordinating entertainment, so he is pivotal to the planning of Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding.
- Ultimately, he is responsible for production of "Pyramus and Thisbe" at the reception.
- His judgement is in question due to the performace options he presenting to Theseus.
ACT V
Theseus
...What revels are in hand? Is there no play
To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
Call Philostrate.
Philostrate [coming forward] Here, mighty Theseus
... How shall we beguile
The lazy time if not with some delight?
Philostrate
There is a brief how many sports are ripe.
Make choice of which your Highness will see first.
ACT V continued
Theseus
...“A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
And his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth.”
“Merry” and “tragical”? “Tedious” and “brief”?
That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow!
How shall we find the concord of this discord?
Philostrate
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long
(Which is as brief as I have known a play),
But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
Which makes it tedious; for in all the play,
There is not one word apt, one player fitted.
And tragical, my noble lord, it is.
For Pyramus therein doth kill himself,
Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,
Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears
The passion of loud laughter never shed.
ACT V conclusion
Theseus
What are they that do play it?
Philostrate
Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,
Which never labored in their minds till now,
And now have toiled their unbreathed memories
With this same play, against your nuptial.
Theseus
And we will hear it.
Philostrate
No, my noble lord,
It is not for you. I have heard it over,
And it is nothing, nothing in the world,
Unless you can find sport in their intents,
Extremely stretched and conned with cruel pain
To do you service.
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Act I
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Act III
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