Midsummer Nights Dream quote?

Question

"My mistress with a monster is in love!
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals-"

What does that quote mean? My teacher is asking me to gather up other peoples opinion so i need details THANKS^^

Answer 1

Themes, Symbols, & Motifs
Themes
Love’s Difficulty
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” comments Lysander, articulating one of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s most important themes—that of the difficulty of love (I.i.134). Though most of the conflict in the play stems from the troubles of romance, and though the play involves a number of romantic elements, it is not truly a love story; it distances the audience from the emotions of the characters in order to poke fun at the torments and afflictions that those in love suffer.

Dreams
As the title suggests, dreams are an important theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; they are linked to the bizarre, magical mishaps in the forest. Hippolyta’s first words in the play evidence the prevalence of dreams (“Four days will quickly steep themselves in night, / Four nights will quickly dream away the time”), and various characters mention dreams throughout (I.i.7–8). The theme of dreaming recurs predominantly when characters attempt to explain bizarre events in which these characters are involved: “I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what / dream it was. Man is but an *** if he go about t’expound this dream,” Bottom says, unable to fathom the magical happenings that have affected him as anything but the result of slumber.
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/themes.html

Answer 2

Two magic spells had been cast. The first was by Oberon on his wife Titania. That spell required her to fall in love with the first creature that she met. The second spell was on one actor (An actor was referred to as a mechanical. Since this group of actors was made up of laborers and not professionals, they were called rude as opposed to refined in their craft) out of a group rehearsing near Titania's sleeping area (bower) which replaced his normal head with one of a donkey. Needless to say, when Titania awoke, the first thing that she saw was the actor with the donkey head and she immediately fell in love with it according to the spell. The patches refers to the costumes worn by the actors.

Answer 3

Why would your teacher tell you to get other people's opinions instead of forming your own? Did you read the play? If you did you would know that the fairy queen, Titania, is the victim of a spell cast upon her in her sleep. The rude mechanicals are laborers, one of whom is the object of Titania's magic-induced lust. He is a "monster" in that he has also had a spell cast upon in which he has been cursed with an interesting physical transormation.

Answer 4

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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http://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=A+midsummer+NIght%27s+Dream+

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xMidsummer.html#Midsummer

http://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=271

http://litsum.com/midsummer-nights-dream/