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Shakespeare’s Comedies

Shakespeare’s Comedies. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Introduction. Let’s start with a quiz!. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in the year 1564. Shakespeare wrote three types of plays. What are they? Tragedies Comedies Histories.

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Shakespeare’s Comedies

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  1. Shakespeare’s Comedies A Midsummer Night’s Dream Introduction

  2. Let’s start with a quiz! • William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in the year 1564

  3. Shakespeare wrote three types of plays. What are they? Tragedies Comedies Histories

  4. The name of Shakespeare’s famous theater was The Globe

  5. Shakespeare wrote much of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, also known as Blank verse

  6. Shakespeare has his characters speak in prose to show their Low social class / behavior

  7. Comedies vs. Tragedies • Why are tragedies considered tragic? • Comedies, on the other hand, have happy endings. • Comedies often include • Greater emphasis on situations rather than characters • A struggle for young lovers • Deception (often mistaken identity) • Multiple plots • Different types of comedy, including slapstick, puns, practical jokes, and bawdy humor • Pastoral setting • Often ends with marriage

  8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream • Written early in Shakespeare’s career • Intertwined plots: Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding; the artisans; the lovers in the woods • Set in Athens, Greece • Fairies, sprites, and laborers

  9. AMND continued • What is Midsummer Night? • One of the nights of the year when sprites were powerful • Flowers gathered on MN were magical • People dream of their true loves; sometimes go insane

  10. AMND continued • Important questions: • What is love? • How and why do people fall in and out of love? • Are lovers in control of themselves and their destinies? • Which is more real: reason or passion?

  11. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream does not always do exactly what we might expect, and in this way it keeps its audience guessing…” -Catherine Belsey

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