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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play, by the world's most famous writer of plays, William Shakespeare. Although conversations occur in novels, and sometimes stories and novels are mostly conversation, plays are different. Plays are intended to be performed, and what we call a "play" is a script, a set of instructions for an actor who must say the lines set out for his character and do the things described in the stage directions. They are intended to be seen and heard by an audience full of spectators. They are not intended to be read by the audience. In fact, most of the audience which first saw A Midsummer Night's Dream could not read, but they understood the play perfectly. So in order to understand a play when we read it, we have to imagine the words being said by an actor, imagine his or her gestures and movements, and where they might stand on a stage. This is hard if you have not had some practice with it, or do not know how stages work, or do not have much imagination. Perhaps the biggest problem young students have with reading Shakespeare's plays is that they are plays, and the students have trouble reading plays, which is not surprising considering that they are not intended to be read in the first place.
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What kind of literature did William shakespeare make?
No, he did not. Shakespeare was a playwright and a poet, famed for his sonnets.
What does Puck do to Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Puck transforms Bottom's head into that of a donkey as part of a prank orchestrated by Oberon in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Bottom is then seen by his friends, who are terrified by his new appearance.
What is wrong with titania and oberon?
At the beginning of A Midsummer Night's Dream they are angry with each other as they both want to have the same boy. It's kind of a custody dispute.
What kind of mood does bottom create in a midsummers nights dream?
Bottom creates a comedic and light-hearted mood in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." He brings humor and a sense of absurdity to the play, especially during the scenes where he interacts with the fairy queen, Titania. Bottom's over-the-top personality and his transformation into a donkey provide comic relief amidst the romantic and magical elements of the story.
Which shakespeare play has the name puck in it?
One of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream is called Robin Goodfellow. His nickname (which he usually goes by) is Puck. A Puck is actually an old word for a kind of fairy.
What is Helena's strengths in a midsummer nights dream?
Helena's strengths include her loyalty, determination, and perseverance despite facing rejection and mistreatment from Demetrius. She is willing to fight for what she wants and does not give up easily in pursuing her desired outcome.
What does it mean when you dream of kissing 4 different girls on 4 different nights But you got no feelings for them And you are also with someone?
It probably means you liked them before or you kind like them.
WHAT IS PUCK DOING AT THE END AS HE DESCRIBE THE NIGHT MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM?
If you are referring to Puck's speech "If we shadows have offended", this is called an epilogue. A number of Shakespeare's plays have them, including Henry V, All's Well that Ends Well, As You Like It and Pericles. In an epilogue, either a character from the play, or someone who has been acting as chorus throughout addresses the audience directly and asks them if they would be so kind as to applaud the play.
What is the fairy from the tempest?
Ariel was a male sprite whom Prospero released from captivity and whom Prospero then enslaved.
Why do the craftsmen in A Midsummer Night's Dream use prose?
The common people talk in prose in all of Shakespeare's plays. Its just to make sure you know they are common people. Very important in a class-ridden society like England. That kind of common language symbolizes their status in life
What shakespeare plays involve the supernatural?
Known to myself, the supernatural are very evident through out his writings. In Macbeth there are witches, and ghost. Hamlet also has apparitions. A mid summer nights dream's main characters are of supernatural abilities being fairies. The most common is the appearance of the dead.
Who composed music to A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Shortly after Shakespeare's death the Puritans (religious fundamentalists) succeeded in closing all theatres (they had been trying to do this for many years).The theatres stayed closed for around twenty years (1641 until the early 1660's) and when they opened again, taste had changed.People who went to the theatres after they reopened were too grown up to enjoy a play about fairies, as we can see from Samuel Pepy's diary entry for September 29th 1662:we saw Midsummer Nights Dream which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my lifeBut theatre managers knew that his was a crowd-pleaser, so something needed to be done to make such a ridiculous play acceptable once more to grown ups.The main thing that was done was to turn the play into a kind of pantomime. If there was music and dancing and lots of special effects, people didn't seem to mind that the play was about fairies. A Midsummer Nights Dream was rewritten as a cross between a play an opera and a ballet by Henry Purcell in 1692, and even given a new title The Faerie Queene.For the next two hundred years A Midsummer Nights Dream was always played with music and dances and special effects. Henry Purcell's version was popular for a long time, but in 1826 Felix Mendelssohn wrote a Concert Overture for the play, then in 1842 expanded this to include Incidental Music (turning the entire play back into a musical extravaganza).From 1842 until the beginning of the twentieth century the play was almost always performed as an accompaniment to Mendelssohn's music, and indeed a film was made of the play as a ballet as late as 1966.Fortunately we are able to watch the play without music these days; and even listen to the music without the play if we want to.Felix Mendelssohn's music is excellent; Henry Purcell's is awesome.
