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A Midsummer Nights Dream 'It is the most insipid, ridiculous Play that I ever saw in my life' (Samuel Pepys 1662) - Discuss
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A Midsummer Nights Dream 'It is the most insipid, ridiculous Play that I ever saw in my life' (Samuel Pepys 1662) I cannot say that I would agree with the above statement made by Samuel Pepys in 1662. When I read the play I didn't quite understand why Shakespeare had written it. After I done some research I realized that Shakespeare wrote this play so that it could be performed for weddings. The story of A Midsummer Night's Dream was that of love. Throughout the play, Shakespeare tried to show that love is unpredictable, unreasonable, and at times is blind. The primary focus in this play was love and its relation to marriage. I think that this play would have been most entertaining for those watching it especially in that era as they had limited entertainment and it would have been what they were accustomed to. Even today in the 21st Century,...
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