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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Humor Shakespeare uses many ways to portray humor and make his plays a success because of it. He created a careful mix of love with humor to create a success called "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." The focus of this paper is to describe how Shakespeare uses humor in his play. One way that Shakespeare uses humor in this play is by using plain humor that need not be interpreted in any way. He did this by creating the artisans. The artisans‚ obviously are not intelligent

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    Logic vs. Magic Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream draws sharp parallels between the two sets of order in the play; one seen in Athens‚ and the other in the forest. Athens is the paragon of order‚ with Theseus ruling in a logical and equitable manner. The "enchanted" forest is a place of chaos and magic‚ untouched by such logical laws as we see in Athens. Faeries and inconstant love rule here‚ while logic and laws govern the movements of Athenians. Both places serve different qualities‚ and

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    inevitably born out of love is a central theme at the heart of Midsummer’s Night’s Dream and Hamlet‚ but is extended by Shakespeare not only to romantic relationships‚ but to familial bonds as well. The conflict is ultimately resolved in diametrically opposing ways in each play‚ according to the conventions of their respective genres. Hamlet is a tragedy‚ and therefore can result only in death‚ but AMND‚ as a comedy‚ uses the traditional method of marriage to resolve its conflict. Shakespeare opens

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    By: rm2252 Discuss the relationship between characterisation and the audience’s response in Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” The relationship between characterisation and the audience’s response in Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is evident throughout the whole play. There is a main emphasis on dramatic irony‚ juxtaposition‚ the confusion between the characters‚ the characters talking directly to the audience and having a play with in a play. Shakespeare relies heavily

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    office 18 October 1999 – 16 January 2003 Preceded by Narayan Rane Succeeded by Sushil Kumar Shinde Personal details Born 26 May 1945 India Died 14 August 2012 (aged 67) Chennai‚ Tamil Nadu Political party Indian National Congress Spouse(s) Vaishali Deshmukh Children 3[citation needed] Occupation Lawyer[1] Religion Hinduism Vilasrao Dagadojirao Deshmukh (26 May 1945 – 14 August 2012) was an Indian politician who served as Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth

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    William Shakespeare wrote the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream between 1595 and 1596. In Shakespeare’s famous comedy love is an important concept. The different characters have different views on love that they express‚ and throughout the play‚ Shakespeare portrays a general attitude about it. A Midsummer Night’s Dream opens with Theseus and Hippolyta planning there wedding which takes place in four days Hermia is in love Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. Instead Egeus declare she

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    Analyzing A Midsummer Night’s Dream The correlations of a piece of literature with its audience are often regarded as being significant in making the prose gratifying. In order to depict whether a play is deemed enjoyable to its audience‚ an analysis of the play’s aspects must be undertaken with evidence and facts to support any reasoning. The underlying connections to the audience brought forth by humorous irony‚ relatable themes‚ and vivid imagery cause A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be considered

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    Flavy Sen Sharma (848) ; Diwita Mathivanan (132) The Rise of the Modern West 25th March‚ 2013 The Influence of Commedia Dell’ Arte on Shakespearean Comedy The European Renaissance as a cultural revolution affected every sphere of life from the 14th to the 17th century. The French term ‘Renaissance‚’ meaning rebirth‚ refers to the period of rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman texts‚ art and culture. This movement originated in Italy from where it spread northwards and impacted England

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    Titania and Oberon quarrel over the changeling. Oberon plans to use the love juice harvested from the "Dian’s bud" (2‚ 1‚ 3) (2‚ 4‚ 1) that Puck retrieves on Titania to snatch the changeling. Oberon uses puck so that juice can be dropped into the lovers eyes. Puck makes a mistake and causes the wrong people to fall in love. Puck transforms bottoms head into that of an ass.Titania falls in love with bottom. Titania and Oberons conflict are over the changeling which Oberons wants as a slave. Titania

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    A play within a play‚ a comedy of love: A Midsummer night’s dream Shakespeare was pointing out that love is maddening and that people do very eccentric things for love. In the play A Midsummer night’s dream written by Shakespeare‚ the characters portray the quote written by John Lennon‚ ‘All you need is love’ in multiple ways. To some extent the quote is relatable and to some extent it is not. In the play‚ there is tension between love and law‚ thus‚ four lovers escape into the magic forest

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