A Midsummer Night's Dream
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The Facts
-This play first and for most is a Comic drama, which means you are suppose to laugh at it. It is a comedy!
- Secondly the setting of this play is in Athens Greece and the forest outside of the city. At the time of this play Theseus, the mythical hero, is suppose to be getting married to the Queen of the Amazons.
- Third this play is actually made up of three different plots!!!! The Athenians, The Fairies, and The Actors. Due to this there isn't really a set climax for the story, protagonist, or antagonist.
- Forth I would look at this play as Shakespeare's interpretation of what high school romance is...really he is about right.
History
- This play was written in early to mid 1590's
- It was published in 1600, otherwise known as the English Renaissance Period
-Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, there's no single source for the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream. But Shakespeare did take various tales and characters from a wide number of sources and stitch them together to create his play.
- The character of Theseus and Hippolyta are from the English Translation of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.
Did You Know?!?
- Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet around the same time he wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream! Really it's true.
-_In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare makes fun of the tragic love stories through the escapades of the lovers in the forests and the ridiculous version of Pyramus and Thisbe (a tragic romance from Ovid's The Metamorphoses) that Bottom and his company perform.
-So while Shakespeare was writing the greatest love story ever told, he was also mocking it.
*Come on you have to love this guy!
- It's like Shakespeare was trying to say, "Yeah, it's tired, it's worn out, it's over done but hey I can still do it a lot better than anyone of you ever could."
-This play first and for most is a Comic drama, which means you are suppose to laugh at it. It is a comedy!
- Secondly the setting of this play is in Athens Greece and the forest outside of the city. At the time of this play Theseus, the mythical hero, is suppose to be getting married to the Queen of the Amazons.
- Third this play is actually made up of three different plots!!!! The Athenians, The Fairies, and The Actors. Due to this there isn't really a set climax for the story, protagonist, or antagonist.
- Forth I would look at this play as Shakespeare's interpretation of what high school romance is...really he is about right.
History
- This play was written in early to mid 1590's
- It was published in 1600, otherwise known as the English Renaissance Period
-Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, there's no single source for the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream. But Shakespeare did take various tales and characters from a wide number of sources and stitch them together to create his play.
- The character of Theseus and Hippolyta are from the English Translation of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.
Did You Know?!?
- Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet around the same time he wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream! Really it's true.
-_In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare makes fun of the tragic love stories through the escapades of the lovers in the forests and the ridiculous version of Pyramus and Thisbe (a tragic romance from Ovid's The Metamorphoses) that Bottom and his company perform.
-So while Shakespeare was writing the greatest love story ever told, he was also mocking it.
*Come on you have to love this guy!
- It's like Shakespeare was trying to say, "Yeah, it's tired, it's worn out, it's over done but hey I can still do it a lot better than anyone of you ever could."