Personality

Personality A Critical Analysis of A Midsummer Night\'s Dream By: Mandy Conway E-mail: sweetpea_250@yahoo.com Mandy Conway Mrs. Guynes English 12 16 March 2000 A Critical Analysis of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare’s comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. This extraordinary play is a play-with-in-a-play, which master writers only write successfully. Shakespeare proves here to be a master writer. Critics find it a task to explain the intricateness of the play, audiences find it very pleasing to read and watch. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a comedy combining elements of love, fairies, magic, and dreams. This play is a comedy about five couples who suffer through love’s strange games and the evil behind the devious tricks. This play begins as Theseus, the Duke, is preparing to marry Hippolyta. He woos her with his sword. Hermia is in love with Lysander. Egeus, Hermia’s father, forbids the relationship with Lysander and orders her to marry midsummer, night’s, dream, world, play, love, hermia, oberon, demetrius, between, shakespeare, reality, lysander, dreams, because, women, titania, helena, fairies, scott, moon, men, two, romeo, fairy, together, theseus, one, juliet, egeus, boy, nature, mcintosh, male, make, imagination