A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Compiled by Nick Wedig

Male Athenians

  1. Autolycus
  2. Phaeton
  3. Endymion
  4. Thidias
  5. Philo
  6. Agrippa
  7. Gyges
  8. Callistratus
  9. Marsyas
  10. Ventidius
  11. Tyndareus
  12. Ganymede
  13. Icarius
  14. Felix
  15. Fabius
  16. Titirus
  17. Mucedorus
  18. Segasto
  19. Pericles
  20. Phedrastus

Female Athenians

  1. Lucia
  2. Timandra
  3. Cornelia
  4. Atalanta
  5. Jocasta
  6. Dolabella
  7. Syrinx
  8. Pasiphae
  9. Aemilia
  10. Violenta
  11. Helen
  12. Clytemnestra
  13. Erigone
  14. Philomena
  15. Phrynia
  16. Gallathea
  17. Timoclea
  18. Andromache
  19. Marina
  20. Dionyza

Rude Mechanicals

  1. Catchpole, who finds and catches debtors
  2. Thimblerigger, runs a crooked shell game
  3. Stewsman, the brothel keeper
  4. Eggler, an egg merchant
  5. Akerman, an oxherd
  6. Bearleader, a poor travelling tutor
  7. Founder, the bell maker
  8. Bodger, itinerant carpenter
  9. Cordwainer, the shoemaker
  10. Delver , digs ditches
  11. Lorimer, a saddlemake
  12. Nedeller, purveyor of finely wrought needles
  13. Vaginarius, the scabbard maker
  14. Horseleech, the veterinarian
  15. Pissprophet, a doctor who diagnoses based on your urine
  16. Day, the dairy farmer
  17. Frobisher, who polishes the armor and weapons of the local lord
  18. Trinder, a wheelwright
  19. Allwit, whose wife is cheating on him
  20. Abhorson, an executioner

Fairies

  1. Bilberry
  2. Love-in-a-puzzle
  3. Black Annis
  4. Ranunculus
  5. Amaranthus
  6. Hawkweed
  7. Woodbine
  8. Bearfoot
  9. Thrift
  10. Jack-in-Irons
  11. Teasel
  12. Sweet William
  13. Stonecrop
  14. Narcissus
  15. Jenny Greenteeth
  16. Moonwort
  17. Mouse-Ear
  18. Four O’Clock
  19. Hollyhock
  20. Cathchfly

Elizabethan Plays

Suitable for performance by a party of rude mechanicals (Taken from http://homepage.mac.com/tomdalekeever/earlymodern.html)

  1. Alarum of London
  2. The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again
  3. The Shoemaker’s Holiday, or The Gentle Craft
  4. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
  5. The Faithful Shepherdess
  6. The Honest Whore
  7. The Atheist’s Tragedy
  8. Wit at Several Weapons
  9. The Widow of Yorkshire
  10. Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough
  11. The Triumph of Truth
  12. Lust’s Dominion
  13. The Witch of Edmonton
  14. Cardenio’s Daughter, or Follow the Lady
  15. The Virgin Martyr
  16. Seven Wise Masters
  17. Christmas Come But Once a Year
  18. The Late Murder of the Son upon the Mother, or Keep the Widow Waking
  19. Satiromastix
  20. Oberon, the Faery Prince

More Elizabethan Plays

  1. Epicoene, or the Silent Woman
  2. The Devil is an Ass
  3. Four Prentises of London
  4. The Knight of Burning Pestle
  5. A Woman Killed with Kindness
  6. The Rape of Lucrece
  7. Antigone, the Theban Princess
  8. The Birth of Merlin
  9. The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
  10. The Bloody Banquet
  11. The Murder of Gonzago
  12. The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon
  13. Dido, Queen of Carthage
  14. The Doubtful Heir
  15. Endymion, the Man in the Moon
  16. The Fatal Dowry
  17. Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia
  18. The Mask of Owls
  19. Tis Pity She’s a Whore
  20. Tis No Deceit to Deceive the Deceiver