How Does Shakespeare's Dream Relate To Today

Shakespeare at his time and to his day is known to have written for all audiences. Shakespeare’s writings are so simplistic that the most illiterate peasant can understand his plays, but at the same time make it complicated enough for the scholars and nobles. To this day Shakespeare’s writings hold up in academia as a tool of teaching understanding of words and roots, except the ideas of audiences from today and his time are far from the same. In Shakespeare’s writings it is easy to see how his audience is different than that of today; in Shakespeare’s writing words are used instead of visuals to describe the entirety of a scene, and the word choice used is able to be understood by the least literate people in society, while also being able to entertain the most …show more content…
In the comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream where he tells the tale of how a group of actors end up performing a play for the Duke and Duchess who would be wed, but at the same time the tale of a romantic love square between four people who have met fairies that try to help some of them, it shows an example of how plays are made, particularly in the context of target audiences. An example of how Shakespeare shows this would be when Quince, the carpenter and play director says “Marry, our play is the most lamentable comedy and/ most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe (1.2.5-6)”. This example of the type of plays written for the time when contrasted to todays’ typical Sci-Fi, Action, Midget, Ninja, Horror, Chainsaw movie that comes out each month makes modern readers realize just how out of touch Shakespeare’s writings are from current societal norms. Today’s specificity of genres is but only one of the many disconnections from Shakespearian