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A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream exemplifies Shakespearean comedy through its use of romantic entanglements, mistaken identities, and a happy ending with multiple marriages. Comedy arises from contrasts...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, humor and comedic characters play crucial roles in lightening the mood and creating a whimsical atmosphere. Characters like Bottom and the mechanicals provide comic...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

The play-within-a-play in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" parodies dramatic traditions by comically subverting them. The amateur actors, the Mechanicals, perform "Pyramus and Thisbe" with exaggerated...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

The comic elements in Titania and Bottom's love affair in Act 3 of A Midsummer Night's Dream arise from Bottom's transformation into an ass and Titania's enchanted infatuation with him. The humor...

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