Comparison of Play and Film of A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Comparison of the Play and Film
of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

While watching the film, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there were both similarities and differences between the adaptation and Shakespeare’s play as he wrote it. The following paragraphs will compare the play and film by listing the similarities and differences and their significance.
Some similarities are the main characters, dialogue, and theme. The director of the film keeps the same list of main characters as in the play. However, the adaptation uses a lot of extra characters in the various scenes, such as Theseus’s temple at the beginning of the film and the wedding dinner at the end, which help bring the story to life. In addition, the film follows the dialogue of the play very closely, but the director omits lines that he feels are not critical. If the entire wording from the play had been used, the film would have been too long and tedious. Unless one is reading the play while watching the fil...