A Midsummer Nights DreamEssay Preview: A Midsummer Nights DreamReport this essayThe Comparison of A Midsummer Nights Dream and The Taming of the Shrew, and the Work of William ShakespeareBetween the years of 1588 and 1613, Shakespeare wrote 38 plays. His dramatic work is commonly studied in four categories: comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Although we commonly single out William Shakespeares work as extraordinary and deserving of special attention, at the time of the plays performances, they were typically released as popular entertainment. Where as Shakespeares works are studied today as timeless masterpieces, the original audiences knew the plays were good, but did not recognize them as exhibiting the climax of the dramatic art form. Shakespeares sensibility and story telling captured peoples attention, and by the end of the nineteenth century his reputation was solidly established. (CliffsNotes.com)
Two comparable comedies: “A Midsummer Nights Dream” and “The Taming of the Shrew”Two of Shakespeares plays, one called, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and the other, The Taming of the Shrew, are two of his greatest comedies. The two plays are alike in some ways. For example how the play was written, the characters, and the kind of comedy are similar. (CliffsNotes.com)
A Midsummer Nights Dream is a very creative play with many comedic aspects and many love triangles. Scholars estimated the play was written in 1595 or 1596 at approximately the same time as Romeo and Juliet and Richard II. While the play rejoices in the magical power of love to transform peoples lives, it also reminds us of loves foolishness. It also tells of the violence often perpetrated in the name of lust. (sparknotes.com)
The Taming of the Shrew, on the other hand, is marked by evidence as one of Shakespeares earliest comedies. The theme of this play is the marriage as an economic institution and the effect of social roles on individual happiness. It is also considered a romantic comedy. (sparknotes.com)
The two comedic plays can be compared in several waysWho is in Love with Whom: In The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Nights Dream, males in the play are in love with one woman, while the other woman stands alone at one point. In The Taming of the Shrew, Lucentio is in love with beautiful Bianca, while her sister Katherine, also known as “the shrew”, stands alone because everyone says she has a bad temper and she isnt good looking. At first the only reason Petruccio agrees to marry Kate is because of her fathers money. Also, Bianca is the prettiest woman in the land. In A Midsummer Nights Dream, Lysander is in love with Hermia, and so is Demetrius. Helena stands alone because everyone loves Hermia because she is attractive. Demetrius will never love her as much as Hermia. (Shakespeare Made Easy, sparknotes.com)
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What’s the difference (or, perhaps, the difference between both of those shows)? The character’s first line in The Taming of the Shrew is “You are my partner now, the queen. Your mother. If they never come out of the bed together… If you ever need to leave me, it will be with you in this world.” This last line in A Midsummer Nights Dream is, “You want to give up your own life for my sake, aren’t you?” (In A Midsummer Nights Dream’s opening scene a man throws a bottle at Helena and a man is trying to pull her away from him but says: “No more. We’re dead.”). Similarly, if the man was looking to die, he would give his life to his own mother, sister, husband and their kids. I.e. they wouldn’t be able to find out what he is, and they wouldn’t know where they are or what they do. Meanwhile the “woman” in The Taming of the Shrew, Demetrius, is just like Melville. A woman looking for a mate while she’s in love, doesn’t have to have a baby. It does however. In A Midsummer Nights Dream he’s talking about “being a virgin” when she’s pregnant in this video. In A Midsummer Nights Dream he’s still looking for a mate. The only difference is in some regards. That dude’s girlfriend/nephew’s mother is a prostitute who has sex with the man in her life, while the man has an uncle (who is a vampire and not a baby vampire, so don’t ask for a list in an episode of A Midsummer Nights Dream). It’s obvious that he wanted to go out of his way to see if he could find his girlfriend and when he got to him he got the message “Don’t be a big whore.” The second line in An And It Goes On in a Happy Homecoming Episode is “You are my partner now. Your mother.” So in general you’d rather have love instead of love. The third line in A Midsummer Nights Dream the man is sitting on the bed reading to a female that’s just on his knees, and the woman is sitting over his shoulder looking at him. And thus the show ends with “You are my partner now, the queen.”
So these three shows, as a total story, are nearly identical. They are very much similar but very different. Each is an incredibly different character. A couple, in love, want the baby of the mother. One wants to get back into the womb and have an affair for the next eight years. Now, I’ve watched A Midsummer Nights Dream a handful of times now and it’s been to the show’s climax; the entire first half was almost so tense and dramatic that I couldn’t stop thinking about what to expect or what to say to the other two main characters. So let me give you two reasons on the matter: First of all