“A parody is the imitation of a created work. A parody is not necessarily intended to ridicule, but it often does.” (Maeve Maddox, 2009) A Midsummer Night’s Dream is famous for including a ‘play within a play’ in its script. In the story, the characters ‘Mechanicals’ perform a play of Pyramus and Thisbe on a makeshift stage for Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. Similar to a parody is a travesty, but the difference is while parody is intentionally funny, travesty is unintentionally so. The Pyramus and Thisbe play is intended to be serious, but the …show more content…
Looking outside the script and just by watching the play, one would say that this is a travesty since the Pyramus and Thisbe play was not intended to be funny. But as