(In the play itself, a group of amateur actors puts together a performance to celebrate the marriage of the Duke Theseus and Hippolyta.) It's too bad there's no real evidence to support the idea. This is a nice idea and it makes sense because plays were often commissioned for these kinds of fancy shindigs. Did he write Dream to be performed at a nobleman's big, fancy wedding? Some scholars think so.
Over the years, there's been a lot of speculation about the occasion for which Shakespeare might have written the play. The Mechanicals' play is widely considered to be Shakespeare's light-hearted and silly mock-up of Romeo and Juliet. In Dream, a group of craftsmen (the "Mechanicals") bumble their way through a ridiculous performance of Pyramus and Thisbe (a story taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses). 1595) was written around the same time Shakespeare whipped up his famous play about two "star-cross'd" lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Like the modern-day romantic comedy genre it's helped to shape and influence, A Midsummer Night's Dream features young lovers who fall comically in and out of love in a ridiculously brief period of time (over the course of a single, enchanted midsummer night).Ī Midsummer Night's Dream (c. No, it's not the latest romantic comedy to hit theaters near you it's a play that was dreamed up by William Shakespeare toward the end of the 16th century. Girl wins boy back (with the help of a little fairy magic). Girl loses boy when mischievous fairy sprinkles love "juice" on boy's eyelids, making him fall for another girl.
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