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William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2006.
This paper analyzes the use of comedy in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as presented in the play-within-a-play, 'The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisby', in Act V.
1,495 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper describes William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream as preposterous, and arsy-versy. The author points out that, by using the rude mechanicals, Shakespeare seems to be arguing that arsy-versy can turn even the most lamentable tragedy into a roaring comedy. The paper relates that an example of arsy-versy of one of the rude mechanicals is called Snug the Joiner, whose rhetoric is so slow and disjointed that he asks for his lines written in advance. The author also then discusses Titania as an example of preposterousnous, explaining that she is the fairy goddess who falls deeply in love with Bottom despite his having an ass for a head of which he is unaware. The paper concludes that the backwards reaction to the events of the play-within-the-play points to Shakespeare's message that people are insensitive to their own follies and yet are very perceptive of the same follies found in others.
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"As the play begins, the preposterousness of the presentation is immediately shown in the prologue, which the rude mechanicals took great care to write so as not to offend the court. Peter Quince's delivery of the prologue presents a message opposite from the intended one. "If we offend, it is with our good will," he says, unfortunately telling the court that his intent is to offend. "All for your delight," he later says, "we are not here". The players then continue to present their play in a rather backwards manner; by making it crystal clear to the court that what they see in front of them isn't real."
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Film: "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2007.
This paper compares Michael Hoffman's 1999 film, "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Shakespeare's original play.
2,350 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper explains that, for his 1999 film, "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream", Michael Hoffman rewrote the original Shakespeare play, put it into a more modern context and emphasized artistic visual expression over Shakespeare's expression through the poetry of language. The author points out that Hoffman modernized the gender roles by creating a dialogue for Bottom's wife, thus increasing her importance; wherein, in the original play, her role consisted of a stare. The paper relates that, to appeal to modern cultural standards, the movie has been made more aesthetically pleasing by the fantasy theatrics of the costumes and makeup.
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"The first and most evident difference between the 1999 film adaptation and the original play by Shakespeare is the setting. Shakespeare's work is set in Greece, while Hoffman's is set in the turn of the 20th century Tuscany. It was also filmed in Tuscany. "Hoffman moves the action forward in time and sets it in late 19th-Century Tuscany" writes Welsh, but it is questioned whether this "new setting makes sense". Thus Hoffman's version has an immediate difference between that of Shakespeare's which took place in the traditional classical setting."
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2007.
An analysis of the marriage relationship that Oberon has with Titania in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
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This paper examines the portrayal of the married couple, Oberon and Titania, in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The writer discusses the element of trust in a relationship and looks at the way Oberon mistrusts Titania. The writer further discusses the importance of respect in a marriage and explains the reasons for Oberon's disrespect. The writer also argues that a married couple should never disrespect the freewill of the other spouse, and suggests that Oberon takes this ability of freewill from Titania as soon as the love potion is given to her. The writer concludes that people can forgive even the most horrific actions all because of love.
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"A married couple should be willing to share their attention and love. They should trust one another enough to realize that love for another being does not take away from the love they share. Oberon does not trust Titania enough to realize that her love for him has not disappeared just because she loves the Indian child. Oberon disrespects Titania by being jealous of her love and the care she gives to the Indian child. The biggest disrespect is when he puts Titania under the love spell to gain for his own good. Oberon is jealous of the little Indian boy that Titania has been given to care for. He feels as though her is attention completely on the baby."
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Shakespeare?s "A Midsummer Night?s Dream", 2004.
Analysis of one the most famous characters in Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
839 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper analyzes Puck, one of the main characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and explains how the character of Puck is central to the play, in spite of the fact that Shakespeare did not develop Puck's character more fully.
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"Shakespeare is notorious for creating memorable characters and perhaps one of his most famous characters is Puck from his play, A Midsummer Night?s Dream. While Puck is critical to the development of the play, his character remains essentially flat throughout the course of the play. Puck is poetic, playful, innocent, and enjoys laughing at those who become the victims of his antics. However, we do not witness Puck?s development as a character. In a sense, he never grows up and we never see any depth of his character."
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Magic in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 2000.
An exploration of Shakespeare's treatment of magic and the supernatural in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
1,450 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper explores the theme of magic in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and discusses how Shakespeare uses supernatural elements throughout the play. It considers the boundaries between good and evil, and comments upon the ways Shakespeare presents the play as a supernaturally charged adventure.
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"There was a strong belief in the supernatural in Shakespeare?s era and subsequently, some form of the supernatural realm is a common theme throughout his plays. The supernatural is a central theme in A Midsummer Night?s Dream which is set in an enchanted fairyland wood and the play clearly demonstrates the power of the supernatural and the dramatic influence the spiritual world has upon the natural order of things. "
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night Dream", 2007.
This paper compares and contrasts Shakespear's original version of "A Midsummer's Night Dream" with the film version.
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper discusses how both the film and the original version of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy "A Midsummer's Night Dream" use the same words to tell a tale of temporarily thwarted young love. Yet, there are many differences the paper illustrates. The paper explains that because the film uses visual images to illustrate the words of the Shakespearean play and makes use of selective cutting to emphasize certain scenes over others, the film offers a more selective view of dreams and dreaming as opposed to the play that is viewed in its complete and uncut form.
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"The nature of cinema allows the director of "A Midsummer's Night Dream" to make the fairies, such as Titania, Oberon, and Puck seem much more fantastical in contrast to the earth-bound mortals. The fairies float; strange, beautiful lights surround them. Yet in this rendition, they lose some of the earthier, humorous, and more interesting mortal qualities in contrast to the warring fairy characters in the play."
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William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", 1983.
This paper examines William Shakespeare's use of fairies and magic in his play "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
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"The purpose of this research is to examine William Shakespeare's use of fairies and magic in his play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." A sketch of the pre-Shakespearean history of fairies will be followed by an exploration of their structural and dramatic role in the play.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is Shakespeare's purest and most lyrical comedy. Potential issues of conflict, such as politics, marital discord and power seeking, so predominant in later plays, are here merely the temporary devices that serve to shuffle forward the gossamer lightness of the action. In fact, the play has only a passing touch with reality of any kind, dwelling instead almost its entire airy length in a kind of fitful dream
of love and illusion. It is this dialogue between love and illusion, bracketed by the rational reassurances of Theseus, ruler of Athen ... "
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 1972.
This paper analyzes the Eyes as a focal point as a unifying factor of in Shakespeare's comedy-fantasy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and discusses the idea of appearance and reality.
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"A Mid-Summer Night's Dream deals with magic potions, fairy spirits, and unbelievably strange happenings that could take place only in dreams. In such an unreal, fantastic world as that of the play it seems somewhat ironic that the eyes should become a focal point and one of the unifying factors in the play, for in the world of this comedy seeing can hardly be believing. Yet, the eyes do serve to draw the play together, for they are used to express that the eyes can often be deceived; one can be led to believe a fantasy. Thus, the play deals with the idea of appearance versus reality, that things are not always what they seem to be. What seems real to one person may not be so to another And conversely, that which one person considers purely fantastic may be quite real to another."
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Romantic Love in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 2001.
This is an exploration of how romantic love can turn lovers into fools.
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper looks at Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as an example of how Cupid's arrow can make people defy convention and reason. Through an examination of the characters and their roles, the author supports the thesis that love causes a person to become irrational and can often cause them to lose touch with reality.
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"The fighting continues between the four. Helena gets more and more upset, particularly at Hermia, who was once her dearest, closest friend, and whom she now suspects is being cruel to her. Hermia herself is very confused, at both the fact that Lysander no longer wants anything to do with her, and the fact that Helena seems to not trust her. Once the argument ceases and the four go off into the forest, so Demetrius and Lysander can duke it out over Helena, Puck catches up to set things "right". Oberon's wish is that the original lovers Lysander and Hermia are reunited, and that Demetrius will stay in love with Helena, and she will believe his love to be true."
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"A Midsummer Night?s Dream" by William Shakespeare, 2002.
An examination of the dream theme of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night?s Dream".
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Dreaming and what happens during the period of slumber are two important themes that emerge from the Shakespearean comedy ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?. This paper discusses the difference between actual dreams and the surreal situation in order to grasp the meaning and significance of ?dreaming? in the play.
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"A Midsummer Night?s dream, as the name suggest, is full of instances of fantasy and illusion which makes it on the one hand, a beautiful magical tale while on the other a comic story where surrealism outweighs every other force. While many would think that love is the dominant theme of the play, the playwright it appears had another theme in mind when he created this story. Shakespeare has given dreams a more dominant role to play in the plot because it is during the period of slumber that magical things happen to the characters, which completely change the course of the play."
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"Midsummer Night's Dream" ( Shakespeare ), 1999.
Examines characters' responses to dream-like experience under Puck's spell.
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"Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy built around the events which take place during one fantastic night in the forest. It is a play about the strange power of dreams--a power which can transform love to loathing, heaven to hell, and men to beasts. This paper will focus on the dream within the play and, more specifically, on the attitudes and judgments of the lovers, Bottom, Theseus, and Hippolyta toward the experience, as expressed in four passages which present their varying points of view.
The first of these passages, the conversation presenting the young lovers' reaction to the night's events (4.1.180-92), is brief but telling. Demetrius, the only one still under Puck's pansy-liquor spell, remains dazed and uncertain whether the dream has actually ended. He even goes so far as to ask the others.."
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The Mechanical's Play in a "Midsummer Night's Dream.", 2008.
A review of the sub-plot in William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream."
1,795 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper is based around characters that are featured in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The paper first relates that, amid this complicated play, there is the tale of the six mechanicals or craftsmen. The paper then explains how Shakespeare differentiates between them and the other members of his play by use of different language and style.
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"The mechanics have retreated to the woods outside Athens to rehearse the play that they intend to present at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. The play is the classical story of Pyramus and Thisbe. These were two young lovers, living in houses that shared a common wall, whose parents had forbidden them to marry. Their only means of communication was through a crack in the wall of their adjoining houses. Eventually, they were unable to stand separation any longer, and agreed to elope, meeting in the nearby woods. On the appointed night, and taking advantage of the darkness, they slipped out of their respective houses. Thisbe arrived first at the appointed place by a mulberry tree, to find a lioness, her mouth bloody from a recent kill. Terrified, Thisbe fled, dropping her veil as she ran. The lioness then mauled the veil, leaving it torn and covered with blood. Coming on the scene and finding only the torn bloody veil, Pyramus assumed that the lioness had killed Thisbe. In his wild grief, he stabbed himself. Thisbe, emerging safe from her hiding place, and finding Pyramus dead, killed herself. In commemoration of this tragedy, the mulberry tree beside which the lovers took their lives now bears purple berries, instead of the white it had originally grown. (Rivers)"
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2002.
An examination of the themes of magic and imagination in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
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Specifically, this paper presents a thesis that magic and imagination drive the events of the story in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" more than in any other Shakespearean play, thus making "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Shakespeare's only play of pure fantasy.
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"Midsummer Night's Dream", 2005.
A discussion on the main themes in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the whirling relationships between the four lovers in Shakespeare's comedy "Midsummer Night's Dream". It illustrates the theme of rash love's delusions versus mature, realistic love. The author explores the impact of midsummer madness on behavior.
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"In Shakespeare's, "Midsummer's Night Dream" the pivotal word is dream-in the sense of illusion and irrational behavior. The enchanting comedy seems like a romp of intoxicated imagination in which deluded lovers end up in ..."
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?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?, 2006.
This paper explores William Shakespeare's use of mythology in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and details the four main strands within his play.
1,355 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The writer of this paper analyzes the four main sub-stories found in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream' and proves that this play is more than just a discussion of mortals and humans but also a story based on Greek and Roman mythology. This paper also ponders the reasons Shakespeare incorporated mythology into his play, including his desire to appeal to a diverse audience.
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"According to one story in mythology, which Shakespeare uses in A Midsummer Night's Dream is that of Pyramus and Thisbe who are forbidden from marrying by their parents. This is similar to Theseus and Egeus who give Lysander and Hermia trouble. This is where the similarities end (Midsummer Madness). In the mythological tale, Pyramus and Thisbe agreed to meet under the mulberry tree. "Thisbe, who arrived first was scared by a lion and fled, dropping her veil which the lion smeared with blood, and Pyramus, on finding it, believed Thisbe to be dead and killed himself. Thisbe returned and found the tragic sight, in turn killing herself." Prior to the death of the lovers, the mulberry's fruit was white."
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