credited with being a variation on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is a more subtle lifting of the works. The similarities are limited to the device of the confused lovers‚ and the possible use of magic in order to bring the lovers to their correct partner. The similarities would probably have gone unnoticed were it not for the production notes that came as a supplement on the DVD‚ wherein Steve Martin bluntly says that he took the idea from A Midsummer Nights Dream. But as previously stated‚ the theme
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Puck One of the most interesting characters in Shakespeare’s play‚ Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ is Puck. Puck’s whimsical spirit‚ magical fancy‚ fun-loving humor‚ and lovely‚ evocative language permeate the atmosphere of the play. Being brought to the audience’s attention when carrying out Oberon’s orders‚ Puck is often overlooked in relation to the attention given to other events occurring in each plot. Puck is servant and jester to the Fairy King Oberon and it is his charm and enchantment that serves
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KING OF SHADOWS and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM REPORT WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare was and English poet and is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time by many. He invited hundreds of new words and phrases that we still use today. Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died at 52 in 1616. During his life he wrote 36 plays and 154 sonnets. Some of his many famous plays are ROMEO AND JULIET‚ HAMLET‚ AS YOU LIKE IT‚ THE TEMPEST and A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. Shakespeare was well
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5.84) This bud of love‚ by summer’s ripening breath‚ May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. (Romeo and Juliet‚ 2.2.121-2) Love looks not with the eyes‚ but with the mind‚ And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ 1.1.231-2) If thou remember’st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into‚ Thou hast not loved. (As You Like It‚ 2.4.33-5) Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters
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8/01/13 LITERATURE ESSAY: DREAMS According to Wikipedia.com‚ Dreams can be identified as “successions of images‚ emotions‚ and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during stages of sleep. The notion of dreams foreshadows the underlying concept of the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Shakespeare. In the play‚ the purpose of dreams can be identified‚ the relationship between dreams and sleep can be explained‚ and the effects of these dreams on the characters and the audience
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ESSAY I : SHAKESPEARE AND GENDER-BASED STEREOTYPES. "I could find in my heart to disgrace my man ’s apparel and cry like a woman" (II. Iv : 3) is undoubtedly a statement that would make the feminists react strongly nowadays. In a society trying hard to maintain and preserve a certain equality of treatment between men and women in every aspect of everyday life‚ the author of such a sentence would surely be regarded as highly misogynous. But one must bear in mind that in a twenty-first century society
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ways love is presented thematically in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Love by Tom Stoppard. In a Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ love is off and on going between most of the characters which shows that love was difficult and not too strong between the characters‚ while in the play Shakespeare in Love‚ the love between Shakespeare and Viola seems to be pure and full of passion. The idea for love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream starts out with Theseus and Hippolyta. Hippolyta
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Helena’s unanswered love in a midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare is still popular because he wrote about people that are captivating. He wrote about situations that are truly tragic. He wrote comedy which was foolish‚ witty and clever. These are elements which will never go out of fashion and they are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. They will most definitely be equally relevant in another four hundred years. In the play The Midsummer Night’s Dream Nick Bottom is a very rounded
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writings are still relevant today. However‚ Shakespeare hasn’t shed a very good light on all of his characters‚ especially the female characters. Based on his portrayal of the women in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello‚ Shakespeare appears to be a misogynist. Hippolyta from the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the first example. Hippolyta was Queen of the Amazons‚ a clan of warrior women‚ before Theseus conquered her people and took her away to marry him. Shakespeare portrayed Hippolyta as
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The supernatural is used most fearsomely in Hamlet‚ with the ghost of Hamlet’s father representing the most frightening apparition in all of the Bard’s plays. However‚ the supernatural is used to an almost whimsical degree in A Midsummer’s Night Dream and The Tempest. In both of these plays the supernatural does not assume an evil demeanor‚ though it does wreak havoc on the lives of those in its
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