... Night's Dream and As You Like it both describe many serious elements and embark upon an exploration and treatment of some of the most seriousness of life's experiences and themes. However, both of these plays are excellent examples of Shakespearean comedies, and, as such, they both possess a number of similarities in terms of the normal aspects of comedies that are associated with Shakespeare. For example, both contain lovers ... directed at Bottom and other actors, whilst also pointing towards the thin line that exists between tragedy and comedy. The ending of Pyramus and Thisbe is o...

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... represent Queen Elizabeth I's resistance to male dominance throughout her reign as a Monarch of England. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare not only composes a simple and thoughtless comedy, but he constructs a social commentary that investigates the various gender roles and explores the inferiority of women in Elizabethan society. In A Midsummer Night's Dream elements of social critique are present in the opening seen with the conflict between Hermia ... and her father Egeus. Rather than submitting to her father's wishes, Hermia's headstrong attitude questions the belief that wo...

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