Midsummer

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is filled with details up to reader interpretation from hypothetical curtain open, to curtain close. If the title of the play did not give it away, dreams are obviously at the forefront of these interpretations. Shakespeare’s play is a story of dreams and magic versus the harsh reality of love and real life. It follows, primarily, a few different groups of characters: there are four young lovers (Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, and Lysander) who form a…

The last third of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream begins with Titania doting over her new love, Bottom (still with the head of an ass.) Oberon sees the two, and begins to regret what he did to Titania, he squeezes the juice of the second flower into her eye to reverse the spell. Robin is also ordered to change Bottom’s head back to its usual form. Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus find the sleeping young Athenians. Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius wake up, and Lysander’s feelings for…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the popular work of William Shakespeare which was done between 1590 and 1597.The work follows under the genre of the comedy and since then it has been casted by many production house in the globe. Moreover it is done to portray the events around the marriage of Theseus who is the Duke of Athens to Hippolyta. In addition the cast is made up of six amateur actors who are under constantly manipulated and controlled by the fairies inhibiting the forest most of…

1. My first impression is a story within a story, as there are fairies in the woods. 2. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. 3. The exposition is the father was empowered by this law to cause her to be put to death. The rising action is a fairy named Robin Goodfellow tries to solve the love triangle and accidentally makes Lysander fall in love with Helena. The climax is puck Robin manages to separate them all so they don't end up killing each other.…

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night Dream brings together different worlds, representing each level of society: powerful politicians, young lovers, workmen, figures from both the city and the spirit world of our dream: beckoning us from the restrictions civilization. Lysander and Hermia concoct the typical young lover’s scheme of eloping to the forest, a place where they will not be controlled by what appears to them the force structure of convention. Shakespeare operates the play within a nature…

The Modern Wife What do you think of when you hear the words “The Modern Wife?” For me personally, when I hear these words I think of Titania from the book A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. In this book, there are a lot of things going on with various characters throughout the story. On one hand you have Lysander and Hermia who want to run away and be married due to their immense amount of love for one another. On the other you have people like Helena who are obsessed with…

Shakespeare needed a character to give his comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a chance to really thrive. The character Oberon is the king of the fairies. The play does not exactly give the readers an exact image on how Oberon looks like, but based off of drawings and movies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream he is portrayed as a handsome womanizer. Oberon has two sides to his character. One side of him shows that he cares about others and wants them to live happily on. The other side of him shows that…

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play packed with mischief and mayhem. It is often referred to by modern-day scholars as the Elizabethan Inception, as there are multiple examples of “play within a play” devices, each embodying several themes and concepts. Among these are examples of the contrast of tragedy and comedy, the dynamics of the written and spoken word, and imagination vs. reality. The final scene of the play opens with the reappearance of Theseus and Hippolyta, who…

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is his most famous comedy, second only to A Comedy of Errors. Readers are commonly drawn to its dream-like quality and its many references to dreams. Shakespeare, a master of metaphor, emphasizes the fluid nature of reality in his use of the sky. While it is tempting to analyze Shakespeare’s references to individual aspects of the sky (e.g., the moon), Shakespeare alludes to so many features of the sky or the heavens, that it becomes apparent that…

at the Wednesday night showing of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Bellamy not knowing what to expect. I had never been to a Shakespeare production before, but I enjoyed the first production, A Streetcar Named Desire, so I had high expectations for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I thought I would like A Streetcar Named Desire more since it was a realistic play and a little more relatable than fairies and spells, but I was completely wrong. Even though A Midsummer Night’s Dream was not relatable, I…