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I am going to discuss the way Shakespeare uses language and the effects he creates by comparing two of Oberon’s speeches. The first passage I will be focusing on will be from Act three scene two
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A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare was born in the 1564 and died in 1616. He lived in the Elizabethan era and Elizabethan society was very different to the society of today and this difference was very visible in the theatre. In Elizabethan times, theatre was more communal and accessible to the masses than it is today, where theatre is seen as more formal and elitist. Shakespeare's plays appealed to and attracted a wide audience: Queen Elizabeth herself watched some of his plays. In the Globe Theatre, where the majority of his plays were performed, the less affluent theatre goers stood around the stage (and were known as the groundlings), whereas those better off would be in the seats and boxes which were arranged in an upwards curve. This mass appeal would manifest itself in the wide variety of characters in his plays. For example, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, there...
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