... in which only Macbeth can see; everyone else around him is oblivious to his vision and therefore considers him mad. In many cases, these elements of madness are too complex for a high school audience to fully comprehend. Furthermore, some of the madness can be quite disturbing, such as Ophelia's songs: " And will"a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to they ... such things in the school environment as well. Thematically, Shakespearian comedies are more appropriate in a high school setting, dealing with love, magic, humour and more. The setting in a Shakespearian comedy is commonly t...

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... of Shakespeare's comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. This extraordinary play is a play-with-in-a-play, which master writers only write successfully. Shakespeare proves here to be a master writer. The way he incorporates the real world with the world of fairies and mystical creatures is absolutely brilliant. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comedy combining elements of ... love, fairies, magic, and dreams. This play is a comedy about two couples that suffer through love's strange games and the evil behind the devious tricks. This play ... "Romeo and J...

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... Juliet. Some said he could turn a flat, one-sided plot into a masterpiece. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare mixes the humor of Mercutio and Juliet's nurse into a serious tragedy" (Hazlitt). Not many play writes of this time mixed comedy with tragedy, but he did this because the two elements combine in real life and he felt they were free to combine in his plays. None ... of the critics who had praised his poems ever mentioned his plays. However, Francis Meres, a London writer, singled him out. Meres stated ... , "Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds of the ....

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