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'A Midsummer Nights Dream' - review
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The point of this essay is to determine the style and use of humour in William Shakespeare's, 'A Midsummer Nights Dream.' Written around 1595, Shakespeare blended this story from a variety of sources and issues of the time. The play consists of 4 groups of characters: Theseus of Athens and his bride Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons; the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania; two pairs of young lovers who run to a nearby forest; and a company of Athenian working men headed by Nick Bottom, the weaver, who all enter the same forest as the lovers to rehearse a play they intend to perform for Theseus and the nobles. The humour of the play begins with a spell cast by Puck, Oberon's mischievous servant, which causes confusion of love between the lovers: Demetrius, Helena, Hermia and Lysander. But Puck also uses the potion on Titania, the beautiful and...
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