The Comedy of Love

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This paper analyzes the Shakespeare play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", one of the English master's love stories. The paper asserts that Shakespeare's romantic comedies were known for their lightheartedness and unassuming plots, but they were also a serious dramatic outlet for the representation of love. The author concludes that "Midsummer" proves that love's paradoxical qualities and its fickle nature play surprisingly well on the funny bone.

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"The dramatization of Pyramus and Thisbe, though comically performed, tells a tragic story of doomed young love and is perhaps the best example of love's paradoxical quality, both foolish and profound, in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Although performed by a group of ridiculous, lumbering amateur actors whose day jobs included weaving, tailoring and joinery, the play still resonated with intense drama."

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