MIDSUMMERS NIGHT DREAM

Midsummers Night Dream - review of play or movie

Midsummers Night Dream - review of play or movie

Introduction

Written in the mid-1590s, likely soon before Shakespeare turned to Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of his strangest and most charming creations, and it brands a exodus from his previous works and from other ones of the English Renaissance. The play illustrates both the span of Shakespeare's discovering and the expansiveness of his imagination. The variety of quotations in the play is amidst its most exceptional attributes: Shakespeare sketches on causes as diverse as Greek mythology (Theseus, for example, ...