... write successfully. Shakespeare proves here to be a master writer. Critics find it a task to explain the intricateness of the play, audiences find it very pleasing to read and watch. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comedy combining elements of love, fairies, magic, and dreams. This play is a comedy about five couples who suffer through love's strange games and the evil behind the devious ... nes that are bound to cross the course of true love. This causes them to run away. (Scott 382-385) Mark van Doren explains the language and poetry in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as an immense expans...

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... our everyday world, almost but not quite in synchronization with us, overlapping in some ways, different in others, and operating on a different level of energy. (Macbeth, p. 12) In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the overlap is immediately manifest - both fairies and humans are played by actors speaking English on the same stage. As far as plot is concerned, both fairies and humans have ... of the "triple Hecate's team" (l. 370) mentioned in Puck's second-to-last speech. The three serve metaphorically as a triple-faceted representation of the commonalities between human and fey. From A Midsu...

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