Logged out
Access All our Essays in an Instant
Swap your work for FREE access, or pay £4.99 for instant access
What are the dramatic conventions which mark out A Midsummer Nights Dream as a comedy? What aspects of the play show that a comedy can also be serious?
Member rating:
(3 votes)
| Words:
| Submitted: Thu Jul 11 2002
Page Preview
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
Simon Johnson Shakespeare Coursework A Midsummer Nights Dream What are the dramatic conventions which mark out A Midsummer Nights Dream as a comedy? What aspects of the play show that a comedy can also be serious? Comedy appears throughout A Midsummer Nights Dream. However, some aspects of comedy come across as quite serious. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a play of the comic form. It is therefore intended to amuse the audience and make them laugh. It also means that there is a very specific outline to the story, i.e. normality to chaos and back to normality once the chaos has been resolved, which at the end, is signalled by the feasting, drinking and laughing. The play comes into existence in the Athenian court. As expected there is perfect normality and the court of Athens rules with its law and order. Athens is very much a place of reason in this play. Whenever it is set...
To see the full version of this document, and 145,345 others
