‘Discuss the comedy in a Midsummer night’s dream’

‘A midsummer night’s dream’ is a Shakespearean play containing for different plots. The for plots are Theseus and Hippolyta getting married, the four lovers getting confuse with who they love, set in the woods, the fairy king and queen falling out with each other and the mechanicals who are trying to rehearse a play for Theseus’ and Hippolyta’s wedding.
Comedy is used throughout to make the play more entertaining. It’s used in many different ways. In each plot the type of humour suits the characters and the situation they’re in.
Even before the play begins comedy, or more pointedly irony, has been used to create the bases of the play.
Theseus and Hippolyta were classical Greek figures. Theseus who made war on the Amazons, a tribe of female virgin warriors who were hostile to marriage, defeated and married their queen Hippolyta. Hippolyta therefore accepted dominance of man over woman. The irony being the fact that Hippolyta stood against marriage and men in general, bu...