Puck

The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies, and it shares many essential characteristics with his other romantic comedies, such as Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. These characteristics include light-hearted and slapstick humor, disguises and deception, and a happy ending in which most of the characters come out satisfied. The light-heartedness of these romantic comedies contrasts sharply with the darker humor and deeper characterization of…

A frame story is a story constituting a frame for another story or a series of other stories. The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is comedy consisting of a frame story and four other concurrent stories. The frame story in the play is of the marriage between Theseus, the duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, the queen of the amazons. The other four stories are: the dispute between Hermia and Egeus; the play, put together by laborers for Theseus’s wedding; the dispute between Oberon and Titania, the king…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by the English playwright William Shakespeare on 1590-1596. Shakespeare's plays are known to revolve on 3 genres- comedy, tragedy, and history. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a tale that combines the genres of comedy, fantasy, and romance, which are the play’s ingredient to make it significant even until today. The writing style of the play is also deemed very impressive during the time of his people and also to us today. Aside from its genres and…

Romeo and Juliet, written as a play, focuses on two people separated by a feud between families, meet out of the blue and fell in love. All of the characters in this play were all filled with different knowledge about each other's lives. Love and marriage were all mostly in their heads, but there were different stories behind their thoughts and what they knew. The character that did change their point of view is known as a dynamic character. The one that does not change their point of view were…

When forbidden love crosses two young individuals, the best is not intended for them. William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy and romance. In the play, two young lovers named Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, cross paths and end up falling head over heels for each other. However, their families have been adversaries for years but that does not stop them. They still pursue their dangerous love for each other behind their loved ones back. This results in deaths of them…

Literature has always been enraptured with love and describing its effects on people. In the theater, playwright John Lyly uses his play Galathea to paint his own picture and definition of love that is complex and ever-changing; through his characters Galathea, Phillida, and the goddess Diana’s nymphs, Lyly shows that love comes in different forms. Sometimes love is pure and innocent, while other times it is undesirable and invasive, consuming one’s thoughts. Through these dynamic relationships,…

Throughout both the film Tootsie and Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the idea of gender crossover is used, and while the idea of gender itself is examined, this crossover’s affect on love relationships is the main focus. Both Michael Dorsey and Rosalind, the protagonists of their respects works, pretend for a short time to be the opposite gender. Both are also in love with someone who, for the time being, is the same gender as they are – Michael falls in love in his disguise, while Rosalind…

Have you ever desired to have something or someone so intensely that you would do anything to have it? For example, in the movie Shrek, Shrek had a desire for Princess Fiona so deeply that he did anything and everything to be with her. Well, when I think about love and what a person would do for love two stories come to mind, and they are "Pyramus and Thisbe" by Ovid and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. These characters in the story have many obstacles, barriers, and limitation that…

Love’s power seems obscure yet humans dwell on this intangible feeling from day to day life. At the heart of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is the idea that loves forces people to perform extreme actions. This is shown from Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other. Friar Lawrence's love is also expressed to Romeo through his radical actions. Both the Capulets and Montagues are constantly at each other’s throats while Romeo and Juliet go on a mischievous journey. Romeo and Juliet’s love is…

Romeo and Juliet Identity Crushes Shakespeare uses both romantic crushes and identity crushes in plays. These romantic crushes and identity crushes are shown multiple times through Romeo and Juliet. Most examples of these crushes are shown mainly through large events in the plays. Examples of such would be Romeo and Juliet dying as a result of their love and Friar Lawrence telling Juliet to take a poison and she does so because she looks up to Friar Lawrence. Identity crushes and romantic…