a midsummers night's dream coursework
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Coursework 'Explore Shakespeare's presentation of the wood and its inhabitants' As the vast majority of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare is set within a wood, near the city of Athens, it is important to step back and thoroughly examine Shakespeare's presentation of the wood, as well as its inhabitants. Shakespeare presents the main inhabitants of the wood as fairies. There are many fairy characters in the play, but the main fairies are Oberon, the fairy king, and Titania, the fairy queen. Puck, a somewhat secondary fairy character, is a servant of Oberon's. Shakespeare presents them in individual ways, but still manages to enscapulate the ways in which they contrast to the mortals in the play. Shakespeare presents the setting of the wood in a way that makes it seem as if it is a different world altogether from the city. He makes exceptionally good use of imagery...

