Contrast Shakespeare’s use of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream ( DEC 08) A play within a play is a literary device that is used for several purposes-contrast‚ mirroring and for purely comedic purposes. Hamlet Midsummer Night’s Dream 1 In Hamlet it displayed self consciousness 1 In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare shows the process of creating and staging a play through the rehearsals of the ‘ rude mechanicals’ 2
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William Shakespeare: Shakespearean Authorship Many individuals say that William Shakespeare of Stratford is the original writer of all 38 plays and 154 sonnets. It is argued that someone else other than Shakespeare wrote these plays. William Shakespeare was born April 23‚ 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Shakespreare was a lower middle-class man. William Shakespaeare‚ son of John Shakespeare‚ a glove maker and town official and Mary Arden who belonged to a family of the local gentry. Also‚ father
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tragedies and his plays in general‚ we can come across several types of female characters. Their influence with other characters and their purpose or role‚ often underestimated like women themselves‚ will be this essay’s main subject. Women in Shakespearean plays have always had important roles‚ sometimes even the leading role. Whether they create the main conflicts and base of the plays‚ or bring up interesting moral and cultural questions‚ they have always been put in challenging situations. Some
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows the basic structure and pattern of a Shakespearean comedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows this pattern because Elizabethans expected it. The template of a Shakespearean comedy contained love as its central theme‚ clever use of language and magic. The prime theme of a Shakespearean comedy is love. There are many types of love including forced love‚ induced love and true love. True lovers in Shakespearean comedies often have to face things that block them from
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Comedy Critique Goethe’s Faust and Voltaire’s Candide were two of the most interesting books that I have ever read! Both comedies were very different from each other in many ways. The structure of both books varied significantly. I enjoyed Candide more than Faust partially due to the structure. I found that because Faust almost entirely rhymed that it was harder to follow. It was very distracting to me and I felt as if the rhyming took away from the story. Candide was told more like a story and
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believed that tragedy served a higher purpose than comedy because of its cathartic effect. Therefore‚ comedy is delegitimized. But comedy does serve a social purpose that can be considered cathartic. It can be an outlet for social angst. At the time Lysistrata was written‚ Athens‚ a superpower of their time‚ had just lost a battle with Sparta. This probably shattered the conceptions of Athenians. And as a result‚ Aristophanes used a ribald comedy about the less-than-citizen women of Sparta and Athens
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People can interpret humor in many different ways. Some people may find a joke hilarious while other may find it offensive. People must be careful of how they use humor. Some may find it offensive because the joke makes fun of their culture or their personality. We experience comedy in our everyday lives‚ or when we sit down to watch a funny movie. In modern day most comedy targets a certain group of people or race. Humor is the quality or being amusing‚ however it is funny only to some extent
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Tragedy or Comedy The play writer William Shakespeare is widely considered one the greatest playwrights in history. His work transformed English literature forever. Most of his plays were either comedies or tragedies and some seemed to have the line blurred between the two as they contain elements of both. The play Merchant of Venice is one of these plays that contains flavours of both a comedy and a tragedy. Many scholars have frequently debated whether the play is either classified as a comedy or a
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this kind‚ wanting your father’s voice‚ The other must be held the worthier” (1.1.55-57). This quote is saying that her father doesn’t want her to marry Lysander so she has to consider marrying Demetrius. Helena loves Demetrius since they spent one night together. But Demetrius does not love Helena or even want to be around her. “The more I love ‚ the more he hateth me” (1.1.204). This quote is saying that the more Helena
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cases where someone fell in love with someone else and that person does not feel the same way as them‚ rather they felt the complete opposite of love for that person. Occasionally when someone is in love with someone else and they know that person does not feel the same way it can have a negative effect on them mentally. William Shakespeare through the character of Helena‚ in his play “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream”‚ he shows one of the many negative mental effects that can occur in someone lives when
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