A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most popular and frequently performed comical plays (Berardinelli). The play transformed into a cinematic production by Michael Hoffman has not changed in its basic plot and dialogue‚ but the setting and some character traits have. The play setting has been gracefully moved from 16th century Greece to 19th century Tuscany (Berardinelli). The addition of bicycles to the play affects the characters in that they no longer have to chase each other around
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representations have dramatically changed? Has stereotyping become less accurate and more common or has the Romantic Comedy genre developed its representations to break female stereotypes? This investigation aims to explore these questions and‚ ultimately‚ to evaluate if the representation of femininity has developed over the last 25 years. Also‚ to find out to what extent the female role within Romantic Comedy has changed. Exploring the representations of female characters by comparing and contrasting the
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Sophia Elali Mrs. Vandenburg ENG3U 9 July‚ 2014 Diary Entries You are Lysander. In your personal diary‚ outline your plan to elope with Hermia. Why is she so wonderful? July 9‚ 1796 Dear Diary‚ I spoke to Hermia once again today. I remember when I first laid my eyes on her‚ everything I had ever known was forgotten. Her eyes sparkled as bright as the stars‚ and she sang like an angel. If not for her father‚ we would be honeymooning in the most beautiful parts of Athens
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Play vs 1999 movie adaptation Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a wordy‚ lengthy play lasting over three hours. The film’s text‚ of course‚ was heavily edited for commercial purposes. The movie weighs in at under two hours. Even though the film was considered a successful adaptation of Shakespeare‚ it lacks much of the play’s depth of characters and inappropriate humor. For instance‚ the play relies heavily on all the characters to achieve the complete idea
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Melanie Calderon English 101/ English 096-15 September 11‚ 2013 Descriptive Essay As I opened my eyes‚ I saw him lying there‚ still sleeping and exploring his deepest thoughts. The cold morning air nibbled at my nose as the sun warmed my body. I leaned over and gave him a gentle kiss on his lips to wake him. Opening his eyes slowly he looked over at me with a smile. As he stroked the side of my face with his hand‚ I felt this caramel colored skin melt over me. After laying there we held each
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r Crystin Johnson Mr. Kelley English 102 3 Apr. 2013 Theseus: the Duke of Athens In A MidsummerNight’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ Theseus is the duke of Athens. Theseus is perceived as a wise ruler. He has recently defeated Hippolyta’s land. He is madly in love with Hippolyta. Recently‚ they become engaged. The play is centered around their wedding. Shakespeare uses Theseus to show the difference between a perfect ruler and a ruler who lacks power and does not possess the ability
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Shakespeare Can Be Funny Too! In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ the Mechanical Bottom portrays character comedy whenever he is interacting with other people throughout the play. Character comedy is using a well known character‚ like Bottom‚ to create comedy. It is usually used to exaggerate a character’s features while showing the audience their personality. An example of this would be when Peter Quince‚ head of the Mechanicals‚ was giving out parts for the play that they were
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Comparing ’A midsummer night dream "- the play and film adaptation I have seen both the modernized version of the play and the film version of Shakespeare’s play‚ "A midsummer night dream." In this text I will compare these two versions and write a short summary of the play‚ write about how the play different from the movie and what the differences are. I will then conclude with my own opinion about the piece. There are two interesting versions with many different features‚ but they are incredibly
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create humor in drama‚ one must either make witty wordplay‚ create an amusing situation‚ or use physical comedy. Often jokes may be incorporated into a play‚ or a comic situation may result in a series of complicated antics. The tradition for some of these comic devices has been carried over for hundreds of years‚ dating back to Shakespeare in the 1600’s. In his play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare creates humor through three diverse devices: oxymoron’s‚ malapropisms and mistaken identities
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A Midsummer Nights Dream‚ by William Shakespeare is a play about love‚ fantasy‚ and magic. In a passage in Act I scene i‚ Hermia has just refused to marry Demetrius‚ going against her fathers demands. This enrages her father‚ so her father brings her to Theseus‚ where the passage begins with Theseus telling Hermia that she must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In this passage‚ Shakespeare conveys the idea that people are often inconsiderate when reacting to others misfortunes. Shakespeare shows
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