Shakespeare help PLEASE!?

Question

Hey, I am auditioning for Puck in A Midsummer's Nights Dream and I have to memorize a monologue, but I do not understand the monologue therefor, I can not act it out. Can someone tell me what is happening in this monologue?

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Thou speakest right

I am the merry wanderer of the night

I jest with Oberon and make him smile

When I a fat and bean fed horse beguile

Neighing in the likeness of a filly foal

And sometimes lurk I into a gossips bowl

In the very likeness of a filly foal

And when she drinks her lips I bob!

And on her Withered dewlap pour the ale.

The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale

Sometimes for a three foot stool mistaketh me

Then I slip from her bum, and down topless she

And she cries, "Oh Tailor!" and falls into a cough

And the whole quire holds their hips and laugh

And waxen in their mirth and neezes and swear

A happier hour was never wasted there

But room fairy for here comes Oberon!

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or if you do not understand either, can you give me another monologue for Puck?

Answer 1

I won't explain line by line, but generally Puck is acting silly, foolish and maybe a little drunk.  Think of him as a court jester.  He compares himself to a spirited but unwise young horse (filly foal), but you could as easily imagine a playful puppy, bumbling around in good spirits and breaking things.  Use broad gestures, smile a lot, move about the stage clumsily.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I think if you read the whole play, act out all the parts, and find out who is who and what they do, you'll be able to paraphrase all the parts (as all good Shakespearean actors must do) and so by understanding what you (Puck) are saying, you can help the audience understand.

In this speech, Puck is bragging to one of the fairies about he makes the King of the Fairies(Oberon)laugh and forget his trouble, and how the quire (the people of the court) enjoys him too.

"But make room, fairy, here comes the King!"

Micky Rooney was Puck in one of the earlier, black and white, movie productions.  I suggest you watch this movie and get some ideas of how Puck is a mischievous cutup, a clown, lots of "using the space" gestures.