Category: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The works of William Shakespeare evince great fascination and entertainment for the overarching themes orchestrated by the plot and characters. The theme of illusion versus reality is employed in many Shakespearean plays, allowing for the saturation of dramatic irony. In this way, the audience becomes increasingly aware of the feelings, motives, and behaviours of each…

In Shakespeares play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, has many comedic moments and the acting is quite humorous. There is also plenty of chaos ( love and hate relationship) between lovers that is resolved by the end, resulting in marriage. However, as a reader, I find that whole idea about women is not so humorous when…

A Midsummer Nights Dream, Richard III, and Much Ado About Nothing are all plays that are concerned with several kinds of problems like having trouble distinguishing reality from fantasy, trying to separate truth from untruth, and seeing the truth within the truth. The plot of each play relies on the ability of actors to tell…

This passage from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is situated at the beginning of the play and forms part of the exposition. In it, Lysander and Hermia are together alone for the first time on stage. They are both upset because Hermia is forced, by her family, to marry Demetrius or to become…

In Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare portrays this idea of love as being a hardship where the character Helena represents the sad truth of a one-sided love. For example, Helena loves Demetrius but he has his eyes set on Hermia. Meanwhile, Hermia loves Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. Throughout the play we…

To what extent does A Midsummer Nights Dream endorse male superiority? A Midsummer Nights Dream amplifies gender tensions that derive from problematic family and romantic relationships. When the play begins, a young woman squabbles with her father for the right to choose her own husband, the duke is set to marry a woman he overthrew…

Shakespeares objective of illusions and reality play upon the context of his play and the management of liminal spaces throughout his work. A Midsummer Nights Dream composed by William Shakespeare was written in 1595/1596 and published in 1600 (this was during the Renaissance) explores the liminal distance between reality and illusions through literary materials such…

The essay title I have chosen to discuss for this final essay is The Suddenness of Love. I intend to discuss this title with reference to material covered over the course of the Shakespearean Comedies module. The suddenness of love is a theme used by William Shakespeare in several of the comedies he wrote such…

The spaces between reality and illusion in theatre are important for shaping the audiences perceptions of the world. The Bell Shakespeare team describes this as the ultimate liminal spaces, neither reality nor pure illusion. William Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream explores the aspect of liminality by blurring the boundaries of the real word with fantasy.…

The play A Midsummer Nights Dream is delightful due to its course of fairies and magical powers. However, focusing on its amusements and to ignore its paradox is to do an injustice to the plays complexity. The play opens up with Theseus and Hippolyta waiting eagerly for their nupital hours. Although this very event seems…