Staging A Midsummer Night's Dream Play Analysis

If there was no such thing as sympathy, empathy, or love in our world, it would be a hard place to live. If there was no hard law or reason in our world, it would be a crazy place to live. Neither of these worlds would be anybody’s first choice as a home - it's just common sense take away either of these two fundamental aspects of life, and everything is immediately chaos. In fact, it is only in a world such as ours, where legal and human emotion work together, that we are happy. In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare recognizes this truth and uses the two settings to represent the city of Athens as law, order, civility, and judgment, while the woods represent chaos, incivility, dreams, and love.

The story of A Midsummer Night's Dream was mainly about love and its abnormal dealings. In the play, Shakespeare tried to show that love is unpredictable, unreasonable, and at times is blind. The theme of love was constantly used during the play and basically everything that was said and done was related to the concept of love and its unpredictable ness. Shakespeare made all of the characters interact their lives to be based on each other’s. At first, everything was very confusing, and the characters were faced with many different problems. In the end, however, they were still able to persevere and win their true love, the love they were searching for in the first place.

He often changes his tone between different paragraphs. He persuades the audience by using logos, giving statistics on an issue. The style in which he writes is in a formal but then changes his tone in the last paragraph. For example, in this sentence he used in the last paragraph, “Make fun if you will of these kids launching lawsuits against the fast-food industry, but don't be surprised if you're the next plaintiff.” He sets this sentence towards his other intended audience to not think bad of those children. He appeal to their emotions by pathos. He knows by appealing to one’s emotions has a strong effect. It assists him to persuade certain people that think with their emotions rather than with

Love is a term used daily in one’s life. Many categorize love in many forms. These forms differ from one-another such as the difference between love for food and love for one’s spouse. However, in the play; “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, love takes different forms than the ones experienced in reality. One can classify the different types of love used in this play into three different categories; true love, love produced by cupid’s flower, and the state of lust.

To escape from the feeling of inadequacy he stops trying in school and uses lying as a way to protect himself. Because he lies so often, it becomes a habit and he admits,”I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life… if I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera,”(19) which shows that he is aware of his own habits. Lying gives him control and the feeling of superiority. He also receives this “superiority” in anticipating what a person might want to hear, but instead does the complete opposite. His actions come off as rebellious and indicates that he lacks self confidence and social interest.

Many stock characters would directly address the audience, which would allow further interest to evolve in the people watching. Isabella would flirt with the audience, Ill Dottore would address them with "expert" knowledge on anything, and fool them with tautologies, "he who is always wrong, is less right than anyone else". Ill Capitano would address them directly in an attempt to gain praise from them. Other characters, such as Pedrolino, would play on the audience for sympathy. The degree of response by the people watching towards the masks indicated the action the troupe would continue to further their scenarios.

Bottom’s appears as a naive and innocent jester, giving the play a light, airy tone. Bottom’s humor is more internal. His slurred and confusing speech causes him to be humorous. “You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip”(1.2.266). Bottom tends to stumble over and mix up his words, contradicting what he is saying. When he does this, people consider him humorous because it is all on accident,

Nearly every character in the play at some point has to make inferences from what he or she sees, has been told or overhears. Likewise, nearly every character in the play at some point plays a part of consciously pretending to be what they are not. The idea of acting and the illusion it creates is rarely far from the surface -

Twelfth Night and The Servant of Two Masters both relate to this course’s theme of the carnivalesque. Both plays share the commonality of having a clown, or a fool; in Twelfth Night it is Feste or the Fool, and in The Servant of Two Masters it is Truffaldino. Both characters play the fool in contrasting ways to express similar yet different forms of the carnivalesque. During carnival, laughter is prominent; people are laughing together, they are laughing at each other, and they are being laughed at. The laughter of carnival is both malicious and happy and everyone is included in it. Feste and Truffaldino show the different aspects of carnival laughter through their portrayals of the fool. Feste plays the role of the artificial fool

Blanche McIntyre’s production of The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe successfully manages to translate the amusing source material from the page into the entertaining, and at times sidesplitting, show on the stage. The piece takes a few minor liberties like Dromio’s attempt to bring down the wash before the play, the addition of songs, changing Aegeon’s thousand-mark ransom to one hundred marks, and the inclusion of a balcony scene outside of Antipholus of Ephesus’ house. However, McIntyre’s interpretation remains overall loyal to the comedy in a way that is able to encapsulate the humor without losing site of the broken family being unwittingly reunited across sea and time, one blunder after another.

Act II, Scene 1: In this scene, we are first introduced to Robin Goodfellow (Puck) who is the errand fairy for the Fairy King (Oberon) and a fairy that runs errands for the Fairy Queen (Titania). Puck warns the fairy that Titania needs to stay away from Oberon because of his anger towards her. His jealousy stems from the Indian boy that Titania has sworn to take care of. When Titania and Oberon enter the scene, Titania states that she will no longer be a companion for her husband.

What literary criticism lens is most effective in creating meaning and entertainment throughout Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream? The play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has several characters involved in a love triangle. Many scenes in the story involves power being used or taken away and use of money. Throughout the play, readers and viewers experiences Hermia’s power is being taken away by her father, Eugues,which is her kindred, not letting her marry the man she truly loves,Lysander. Later throughout the story, Robin, character from the story contains a enthrall love juice that has power and makes another character from the story, Titania, fall in love with a donkey.The marxist literary criticism lens is the most effective in creating meaning and entertaining readers and viewers in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The supernatural world is rather distinct to that of the human world entrenched in societal standards and boundaries. Shakespeare’s play, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, explores this concept, particularly through the use of Puck. In agreement to Harold Bloom’s statement, the following essay will analyse how Puck is significant because, by being so disparate, he is able to show the limitations of the human. This will be done through, first, exploring a definition of the human in relation to the supernatural. Subsequently, the essay will use a Freudian lense to analyse the morality of Puck and, lastly, the essay will focus on Puck’s physical characteristics as well as his ability to span across boundaries in the play and the metatheatrical realm.

Shakespeare has a difficult task entertaining the rowdy Elizabethan audience, especially during the exposition of the play, which sets up the entire plot. The audience needs to be engaged and invested in the play, otherwise many of the Elizabethan audience would throw food and furniture on stage or vandalize the theatre in response. Shakespeare employs a variety of techniques throughout the exposition of the play in order to do this, by creating tension between characters, introducing scandalous plots and unresolved issues right at the beginning of the play leaving the audience waiting for an answer. This essay will explore Shakespeare’s techniques and methods of engaging his Elizabethan audience.

Mandy Conway Mrs. Guynes English 12 16 March 2000 A Critical Analysis of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare's comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. This extraordinary play is a play-with-in-a-play, which master writers only write successfully. Shakespeare proves here to be a master writer. Critics find it a task to explain the intricateness of the play, audiences find it very pleasing to read and watch. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a