Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

The great comedies of William Shakespeare contain some similar qualities that can be traced in and out of highlighted characters and scenarios in several plays. The great composer often communicated advice and displayed moral values through subtleties in his characters remarks. His well established casts of strongly developed characters mimicked many of Shakespeare’s own personal beliefs and values. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of his first comedies, contains one such instance in which the audience can detect a subtle message directed towards them from the composer. During the performance of “Pyramus and Thisbe”, enacted by the helpless Mechanicals, Hyppolita, betrothed to Theseus, King of Athens, remarks, “This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.” The clumsy lower class players were stumbling quite a bit in an effort to pull of a last minute representation of a classic play. Theseus, King of Athens, had ordered the play to take place as part of the celebration...