A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Note on the Character Analysis
Note: While the older couples in A Midsummer Night's Dream have greater depth than the Athenian youths and their female mates, none of the characters in this play is truly three-dimensional. True, Theseus presides, but he is absent from the three central acts of the work, while the majestic Oberon and Titania are so caught up in respectively causing and being victimized by the magic at hand that their characters are adumbrated. Above all, lyrical language and imagery is much more important in A Midsummer Night's Dream than in virtually any of Shakespeare's other works,...
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