Midsummer's Lysistrata

The world of comedy is fundamentally safe. Comedy provides a space that allows characters to take risks and play dangerously because the playwrights always provide a happy ending. The freedom to court some danger in the name of love can sometimes seems as though it has gone too far, in Midsummer’s Night Dream, Oberon’s cruel love games. However the reader is always on his way to a happy ending, to the love of a good woman. The feminine romance is infinitely valuable. Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare have several common themes and characteristics. Both plays are ultimately love stories. Lysistrata is about women wanting their lovers to be at home and Midsummer’s is about wanting and getting the one that you love. Both plays also reserve the idea of a celebration although, more prevalent in Midsummer’s Night Dream because it is after all written for a wedding. Lysistrata's ending of the play is a celebration with Bacchanalian music ...