also baldness which is often caused by treatments of STD. Another good example.
of a pun is what Lysander says to Hermia "For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie".
This example shows how good Shakespeare was at playing around with words as he.
uses the word lie in two different ways. Lie could mean both lying down or not.
telling the truth. Some of these puns show a lot of facetiousness and wit.
Lysander says to Demetrius "You have her father's love. Do you marry him".
implying that Demetrius might be attractive to males. The obscene jokes also.
play a great part in making the play comical. What is particularly absorbing is.
that most of these unclean jokes are unintended. The actors mean something else,.
but we get the wrong message. When the actors say "I kiss the walls hole" or.
"Cursed be thy stones" they literally mean it, while our mind searches for.
hidden meanings. Oxymoron and ironies give an additional meaning for the reader.
Titania who has fallen in love with an ass says "Thou art as wise, as thou art.
beautiful" when we know that an ass is neither beautiful nor intelligent.
Another thing that makes the comedy humorous is the way Shakespeare shows.
stupidity among the characters. He uses different ways, like malapropism,.
exaggerated alliteration, mispronunciation and also bad punctuation. In the play.
we could easily distinguish the people who were not well educated through the.
mistakes they made when talking and acting. The craftsmen very often used wrong.
but similar words unintentionally which changed the meaning of what they were.
trying to say. They might use a big word and try to sound clever, when they.
actually sounded stupid. Using alliteration in a speech normally sounds.
penetrating and intelligent but when it is exaggerated like, "Whereat, with.
blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody.
breast", it sounds awkward and pointless. Mispronunciations like perfet instead.
of perfect and bad punctuation like "We do not come, as minding to content you,.