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A 5 page paper which examines how Shakespeare manipulates a serious situation for humorous effect, how the boisterousness of the low characters influence your perception of the lovers and the courtly characters, considers whether or not the play would be as interesting without Nick Bottom, and evaluates how the comic outcome depends on the players and the fairies. No additional sources are used.
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depends on the players and the fairies. No additional sources are used. TGmnd.rtf William Shakespeares Comic Technique in A Midsummer Nights Dream , For The
Paper Store - May 2001 -- properly! Although William Shakespeare was most celebrated for his tragedies, it is
widely believed that he had the closest connection with his comedies. He had been, after all, a comic actor at one time, and understood the satirical techniques necessary to
tell a humorous story. One of his earliest comedies was A Midsummer Nights Dream, written in 1594, probably intended to serve as entertainment following an Elizabethan marriage ceremony.
It contained serious commentary about weddings, love, marriage, and the foolishness of human nature. While Theseus, the Duke of Athens is planning his upcoming nuptials to Hippolyta, Queen of
the Amazons, other couples are in chaos. Hermia has been committed to Demetrius by her father, Egeus, as per the marital custom of the patriarchal society of ancient Greece.
However, it is Lysander who is the object of Hermias desire, as expressed in her wistful comment, "Belike for want of rain, which I could well / Beteem them
from the tempest of my eyes" (I.i.132-133). Hermias friend, Helena, meanwhile, is in love with Demetrius, and recognizes that Hermias love for Lysander is very real, while her own
true love sees only what he wants to see, and perhaps because he has been deceived by Hermias beauty, has mistaken lust for love. With deep perception, Helena muses,
"How happy some oer other some can be! / Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. / But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; / He will
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