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‘Identify and evaluate the presence and execution of Shakespearean comedy tropes in A Midsummer's Night's Dream’

He is ostensibly the greatest play write ever, with the production of over 37 plays and productions that are constantly staged even now in the 21st century. But one of his more prestigious plays ‘A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’, is “the best written play every produced” as quoted by Chris Hastings of The Telegraph. One of his most illustrious and famed plays which falls within the comedy genre of Shakespeare’s plays has more to it than meets the eye, for it beholds the undeniable recipe of a Shakespearean comedy. Historically all Shakespearean comedies behold the art of a happy ending however it may find its way there, for “true love never did run smooth” as quoted by Lysander from within the play itself. The contents of the essay will incorporate all of the traits that all add up to your stereotypical comedy produced by Shakespeare; this includes a clever servant, a struggle of young lovers, separation and re-unification, disputes between characters, and finally multiple intertwining plots.

One of the main character tropes used in a standard Shakespearean comedy is the clever servant. For the duration of the play we see that Shakespeare creates a realm centered between a world grounded in reality and one existing in the fantasy world. Within this fantasy world, the audience is introduced to a class of characters dubbed ‘The Fairies’ which belong within the ‘Atlantis’ like fairytale that is ‘The Woods’, but we also observe them interact with people from Athens, the realistic setting in which the play begins. This also ties in with the trait of intertwining plots which will be spoken about subsequently. Within the fairy kingdom, we find the mischievous fairy, Puck. Puck’s occupation is that of comical intent; he is the jester of Oberon, the king of the fairies. It appears that Puck is fuelled by pranks and causing chaos, with this he provides many of

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