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Shakespeare’s play, ‘A midsummer night’s dream’ is a comedy which also deals with some serious issues.
The play was written in Shakespearean times as a comedy. The play was written to entertain two very different groups of people. The upper class, and the lower class citizens,
Two different levels of theater had to be written to entertain them both.
An entertaining and comical part, for both groups, would have been the use of fairies and mystical magic in the play. In those days most grown adults were very superstitious and believed in such things. The fairies and magic brought comedy to the play because, although the people were superstitious, they also knew the spirit characters in the play were fanciful and fictional.
Shakespeare used these characters to bring mischief to the story which caused many of the comical incidents that happened through the play.
The most mischievous and there for the most comical and entertaining spirit was Oberon’s servant Puck.
Puck was quick tongued and meddling. He was also quite famous for being so. Puck created a great dea
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Hermia is in love with Lysander despite the fact that her father would rather her die than to marry him.
Despite the humor in ‘A midsummer night’s dream’, Shakespeare also deals with many serious issues in this play.
And all this rejection was even before the meddlesome fairies had a hand in it. Helena was rejected by Demetrius time and time again, but this just made her love him more.
Helena fell in love with Demetruis who was so in love with Hermia, he barely even noticed that Helena existed. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Helena and Demetrius are the best example of this. One of the actors is shy, the other is a man trying to play a woman and another is a hopeless over actor who wants to steal the spot light. When Puck placed the love potion on Lysander’s eyes, things just got worse.
In the play there are a group of actors that greatly contribute to the comedy of this play. And laid the love juice on some true love’s sight. l of trouble when, trying to follow Oberon’s orders, he mistakes Lysander for Demetrius.
“My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass!” Titania. This is evident in many of the relationships between the characters in the play.
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