... months for the men to demonstrate their reformation. "Our wooing does not end like an old play,"" says Berowne; "Jack hath not Jill."" B Middle Comedies Although very different in tone, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice from the mid-1590s provide evidence of Shakespeare's growing mastery of the comic form and his willingness to explore and test its dramatic possibilities ... the Queen of the Fairies "enamored of an ass- echoes the play's more profound concerns with the nature of love and imagination. sidebar GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE Excerpt from A Midsummer Night's D...

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