Thematic Elements Of Comedy In A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Shakespearean notion of comedy and tragedy have been interpreted by countless critics as absolute contradictions of one another. For instance, there is a belief that the everlastingly romantic tale of Romeo and Juliet is unambiguously a tragedy, just as A Midsummer Night’s Dream is undoubtedly a comedy. Each possesses separate, defining, characteristics which drastically alter the storyline of a play, and develop the end into either one of comedic proportion: in which there is the promise of

Just as A Midsummer Night’s Dream could have easily ended in tragedy, Romeo and Juliet held the promise of a comedy until the point of collision. Romeo and Juliet promised their love to one another in secrecy, with the help of the Nurse and Friar, and united their love in procreation. However, fate was not working towards the benefit of the two lovers. More precisely, the battle between the Montagues and Capulets embodies the possible ending likely for A Midsummer Night’s Dream if Lysander and

stories lack. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, he uses the element of magic to his advantage and creates confusion and discord between four young citizens in ancient Greece. He also uses magic to introduce the fairies to the plotline and they too add to the complications and comedy of the story. Throughout the play, magic proves to create the comedic aspects of the story while also adding to the conflicts and the thematic ideas of the tale. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, magic turns

music, movies, plays, etc.) and society as a whole. The Bard’s influence begins with direct remakes and indirect spin-offs of his comedies and tragedies: Romeo and Juliet (done hundreds of times), Paul Mazursky’s remake of modern version of ‘The Tempest’ (named ‘Tempest’), Woody Allen’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy’ (modern spin-off of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’), numerous ‘Hamlet’ films, and much, much more. Beyond the reworks, though, Shakespearean themes influence nearly all literature in

A Midsummer Night’s Dream & A Doll’s House, written by William Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen respectively, are plays that have a varying number of themes. These two plays are centuries apart yet, they share a strikingly similar approaches in regards to the themes that are scattered throughout both plays. Such themes consists of love and marriage, deceit and honesty and most noticeably the relationship between men and women. Though they share many of the same thematic elements, their stories are completely

Introduction Ingmar Bergman has been openly described by Woody Allen as a major influence in his craft of making films. Throughout the years of his career, spanning over decades, Allen has been heavily drawn to Bergman’s style as an art form, enough to impact his own style of telling stories in the cinematic medium. Bergman’s strong method of telling a story was truly riveting and groundbreaking in the entertainment industry, especially for the development of Swedish cinema. As for American