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    In reading‚ "Romeo and Juliet‚" and‚ "A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚" we can find a number of similarities in the characters of both plays. The distinct differences in them are that in one‚ we have a humorous character (or characters) with a cheery ending and in the other; we have a tragic character/s with a moral flaw that will aid in his or her downfall. In an evaluation of their distinctions we can see how they both hold true to their intent on carrying the story forward on it’s meandering course

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    Love Gone Wrong Thanks to Fairies The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smoothly Love Gone Wrong Thanks to Fairies The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smoothly This Midsummer’s day there was a lot conflict in the fairy world‚ Queen Titania and King Oberon fighting over a changeling child and many other lovers disrupted in this fuss. Not long ago Titania‚ Queen of Fairyland‚ adopted a changeling child‚ she loved him and didn’t want to give him up‚ so when Oberon‚ King of Fairyland‚ decided

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Love VS Infatuation             Love is one of the most immense feelings a human can experience.  Love is a deep tender feeling of affection and attachment and devotion to another person.  Countless people experience love‚ both‚ as non-romantic with their families and romantic love with a special person who comes into their life.  When people are on the expedition for love‚ people may become blindsided by infatuation or what is commonly referred to as lust.  Infatuation

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream is traditionally viewed as a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare and dated to 1595 or 1596. Since A Midsummer Night’s Dream was first performed it has been full of spectacle‚ music‚ dancing and fairy flights. A Midsummer Night’s Dream “moves in dreamlike sequences as if on the brink of eternal bliss” . A Midsummer Night’s Dream is structured as most comedies around family tensions. Such as daughter against father‚ wife against husband

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    Austin Green-Paxton TDA-English 4A 6/10/13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream A and B) THESEUS‚ Duke of Athens: Engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order throughout the course of the play. He appears only at the beginning and end of the story‚ and seems to be removed from the dreamlike events of the forest. EGEUS‚ Father to Hermia: Egeus has given Demetrius permission to marry Hermia‚ but Hermia‚ who’s in love with Lysander‚ refuses to marry Demetrius. Egeus’s insists that

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    ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is Shakespeare’s most popular comedy‚ written in 1590. It portrays the adventure of four young Athenian lovers and a group of trades people‚ their interactions with the Duke of Athens‚ and Queen of the Amazons Theseus and Hippolyta‚ who are soon to be married and with fairies who inhabit the Athenian forest. Michael Hoffman’s 1999 reenactment of William Shakespeare’s classic tale ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ effectively and humorously depicts the collision between the

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    The Manipulation of Love A Midsummer Night’s Dream questions the difference between realities and dreaming from the title of the play to the woods to the love potion‚ while the play itself can be viewed as reality or dream. Dream and reality can be explored in many different contexts and constantly takes place in Acts 2 and 3. There are many instances throughout the play where the characters believe they are dreaming‚ but in reality the fairies put potions on the characters to try and pursue

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    Twelfth night was written by William Shakespeare in 1601 it was one of the last comedies he wrote. Twelfth Night is seen by many people as a traditional romantic comedy. It includes devices of gender confusion‚ mistaken identity and speaks about the madness of love. Looking throughout William Shakespeare’s plays similarities can be brought up and seen between A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night both include confusion‚ mistaken love for another and a romantic comedy setting. Orsino

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Isa Ka Damgo We were obliged to watch the play entitled A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Isa ka Damgo. Neither the story nor the plays itself are familiar to me. As we were seated on our seats on the second row of the little theatre‚ I noticed that the backdrop had the touch of Filipino folklore. So as the play started the crowd went silent and had their eyes unto the stage. So the first act started when the Datu Sampurna asked help for his daughter Dayang. The said daughter

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    Shakespeare’s portrayal of A Midsummer Night’s dream has been executed inexplicably well‚ maintaining his flawless reputation of being the greatest playwright to successfully publish his work sprawled across generations. Shakespeare’s use of the elements of drama has been cleverly implemented into the script to engage the responder and evoke the universal emotion that is love. Shakespeare is consistent and conscious of his use of the elements‚ knowing that without them‚ he wouldn’t up stand his bold

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