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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Look at the presentation of the play within the play by the Mechanicals in Act 5: 1 What is there in this performance that will interest and amuse the audience?
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Look at the presentation of the play within the play by the Mechanicals in Act 5: 1 What is there in this performance that will interest and amuse the audience? In the second scene that completes Act I, we are introduced to an extraordinary group of familiar but outlandish comical characters that have been enlightened with the possibility of performing a stage interlude as part of the entertainment at the quick approaching marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. The Mechanicals are not only thought of as the 'rude mechanicals', they are also thought of as sweet and gentle folk who have had no promoting purpose in their lives until now. Peter Quince play as one of the mechanicals as the Playwright for the amateurs. We are able to tell that he is more experienced in writing as Shakespeare makes him present his prologue which is a masterpiece of writing deliberately...
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