A Midsummer Night's Dream By Michael Hoffman

A Midsummer’s Night Dream is a romantic comedy that Shakespeare had created in the sixteenth century. All the events that happen in the play and the movie are happening around the wedding of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, former Queen of the Amazons.

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set in ancient Athens and a magical forest populated by devious fairies. This comedy is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. The four interconnecting plots, driven by a series of comical mistakes, are full of rich, memorable characters. You’re in for a truly captivating story about love, magic, dreams and the fine line between fantasy and reality.

I would argue that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies. Comedy is in abundance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, especially in ‘the play within the play’. ‘The play within the play’ is a key characteristic in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and deserves a thorough analysis as it holds a tight link to the main plot of this play. This part of the play takes up most of act V and allows a cheerful and comical ending to the play. ‘The play within the play’ adds deeper meaning and understanding to the play as an entirety and it mirrors certain aspects of the play as a whole.

Written by William Shakespeare in the year 1595, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s featured play’s that utilizes elements of comedy. Throughout the play, various forms of comedy are used to captivate the reader, and further immerse him/her in the play to the point where the reader can’t help but to keep reading to find out what happens next. In Acts I, III, and V we see a strong element of character comedy. Character comedy is a form of comedic relief in which certain traits assigned to a character are exaggerated in an attempt to provide comedy. This style of comedy is utilized to make the audience expect comedy from a character’s presence. William Shakespeare

Love is such an abstract and intangible thing, yet it is something that everyone longs for. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the difficulty of love is explored through the obstacles that characters have to face while pursuing their loved ones. Those characters that are in love in the play were conflicted with troubles; however, the obstacles of love do not seem to stop them from being infatuated with each other. The concept of true love is examined throughout this play. By creating obstacles using authority and a higher power, Shakespeare examines the power of love. Through Hermia and Lysander’s loving words, it is reasonable to conclude that love conquers all if you believe in it.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream has several themes but there is one that stands out to me. There are many conflicts throughout the play but a majority of them are caused by one character. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare brilliantly displays how love is never clear cut by his use of Puck’s character (who is always muddling everything up).

The comedic, fantastic and romantic play A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare, includes five acts and nine scenes. Basically, the story talks about several main characters—Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius—who encounter a lot of

8. STYLE: (A Midsummer Night's Dream), In A Midsummer Night's Dream, there are three styles: iambic pentameter, rhymed verse, and catalectic Trochaic Tetrameter that make William Shakespeare unique in his writing style. I didn't know about anything first and last styles until I got help from my older sister. She told me that iambic pentameter consists of five iambs per time. The iamb is every second syllable of each word. The lines in the play don’t have regular rhythms so it is called unrhymed iambic pentameter. This is a fancy way to talk to separate upper class characters from the commoners and their differences in talking have humorous effect. The specific example of this is at Act one Scene one line

Offering a unique experience, Actors from the London Stage are able to immerse the audience in a delightful presentation that is enhanced with five actors developing multiple personalities as they play multiple parts in each performance. Exactly this has been done in their performance at the UTSA Recital Hall, in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, by William Shakespeare.

In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream the Athenian lovers are just other lovers. All the lovers share similar personalities, struggles and faults that lead them to be seen as one in the same. Without the distinction between these lovers, William Shakespeare sends a distinct message about young love.

William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was directed by Kirsten Brant and performed at San Jose States University Theatre. The play takes place in the late 1950s from the eyes of world famous Belgian artist Rene Magritte who is known for his pop-art images illustrating common objects in uncommon settings. This assuredly helps projects the idea of illusion vs reality within the storyline of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The main action of the play consists of several love triangles consisting of four lovers that run into the woods, a lovers quarrel between the fairy king and fairy queen while a group of students rehearsing a play seem to get caught in the middle of it all. The main characters of the play were Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1595 - 1596. Although there were some ill-conceived notions about fairies during Elizabethan society, the society that this play was written in, Shakespeare goes against those notions. Shakespeare portrays fairies in a different light that allows him to use comedy as a technique to develop the play. Dreams were not only an element seen throughout the play but also an attribute that people of Elizabethan society had lots of beliefs on. In the play, elements such as fairies and dreams contribute to a prevalent technique seen throughout the entire play: comedy. By going against what Elizabethan society thought of on topics such as fairies and dreams, Shakespeare is able

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play by Shakespeare about love, drama, and fantasy. Shakespeare perfected this play during his time, but director Michael Hoffman brought it to life in 1999. In this romantic fantasy comedy, the film was set in 19th century Monte Athena, in the Kingdom of Italy. Just as in the play, the movie was about different loves and their struggle make their love come true.

A Midsummer’s Night Dream a drama play by William Shakespeare it is a play about how love works in mysterious ways. In this play there are four characters that are determined to get their true love. There is Hermia who is in love with Lysander and so is he of her. There is Demetrius who also is in love with Hermia but Hermia not of him. Also, Helena who is in love with Demetrius, but Demetrius loves Hermia. This play takes place in Athens in the 1500’s when there was a Duke and the daughter had to marry the person her father picked. It is a play where there is confusion by one of the fairies named Puck who gave the spell to Lysander instead Demetrius and Lysander love for Hernia was gone. The conflict in Midsummer’s Night Dream was that Hermia could not be with her true love Lysander and both decide to run away and leave Athens. If they would have not told Helena that they were leaving Athens, then Helena would have not told Demetrius and he would have not gone after Hernia who he loved. The theme of the play can be that love cannot run away, as they all went into the woods after their true love.

In almost all of Shakespeare's plays and comedies, themes vividly come out within the texts. A Midsummer Night’s Dream conveys some of the vital messages in today’s societies. People typically fall in love with those whom they find to be beautiful. Later on, everyone realizes that beauty is not the only part of loving someone.