A Midsummer Nights Dream

Historical records from the late 16th century are marked by the serious results of the pester, which spread out throughout the majority of Europe. The increased death rate and famine reduced cultural advancement and thus very couple of artworks or literature were produced. Throughout these devastating years, the young poet William Shakespeare refused to travel to the provinces, away from London, where the plague had reached enormous extents. On the contrary, in 1593 and 1594 he made up the poems…...

Imagery is an approach based on the dynamics of art and literature that integrates visual and kinaesthetic elements in different stages within the writing process. Imagery is meant to give form to the play's themes, motifs and symbols. Imagery can be further divided into: tactile, auditory, caloric, olfactory and kinetic imagery. The latter involves the sum of all movements realized during the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy in five acts, first written in 1595, which was meant…...

With various shades of "want” – love, pride, ambition - so powerfully driving nearly all of Shakespeare's works in one way or another, it becomes natural to call into question the exact role of “desire,” not merely as a rhetorical tool for character and plot development, but as a central thematic force that proves highly political in nature. In her critical essays on Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer's Night Dream, Marjorie Garber proposes that these works portray desire as…...

The Buddha has a saying that goes “When you like a flower, you simply pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.”. Love is a complicated manner that transforms into something so easy and lovely when the right couple is reciprocating it. It is something that brings joy to people’s day, something that relieves their stress, and is sometimes the reason why people wake up in the morning. Love is so beautiful that it even has…...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first William Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece. He wrote the comedy in 1596. The play is about the love between four couples, they all represent different types of love: mature love, youthful love, and renewed love. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is classified as a romantic comedy, however, from my point of view, the play is strong enough to demonstrate that assessment as a dark romantic comedy using the powerful love appears with strong darkness and cruelty…...

William Shakespeare’s play, A midsummer night dream, is different from all his other plays and this makes it the most performed and studied play not only in classical performances but also in contemporary performances’ title of the play is the first suggestion that the play heavily relies on the act of dreaming and dreams to put across various themes. Different from other plays by William Shakespeare such as Hamlet and Macbeth, this play presents not one but several themes that…...

Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses the theme of boundaries to demonstrate the fixed nature of moral boundaries, the separation of dreams and reality, as well as the physical boundaries dividing the forest and Athenian court. Despite this, Shakespeare also uses this pre-conceived idea of the fixed boundaries within Elizabethan society in order to experiment with the dissolving of boundaries, and the impact that this has on society. Shakespeare uses the spatial boundaries of the settings of the forest…...

Transformation is a theme that appears throughout the play, and may appear jointly with synonyms such as translate, turn into, transpose… “A Midsummer Night's Dream” focuses on the manifestation of physical changes like an animal physical change, Nick Bottom’s case; and also changes at a psychological level of the character, which is the case of the lovers and Titania. That is, a character will undergo a metamorphosis: a physical or personal transformation during the story. The central points of the…...

In Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' the quotation 'the course of true love ne'er runs smooth' is both true and false. Certain characters experience a smooth relationship whilst others do not. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of Shakespeare's plays that is more cheerful than others: the play is entertaining and Shakespeare uses the genre of comedy to keep his audience interested. He covers three different storylines to make up a complicated plot. The play includes a love story,…...

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is comedy but the first scene is quite a tragic. It shows that not only does a father want her daughter killed or for her to marry a man she doesn't love but the daughter is willing to die. None of this is comical. The obvious humour in this play comes from the mechanicals which appear in act 2. This has the mechanicals trying to appear clever by calling their play "The most lamentable comedy, and…...