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Transportation In A Midsummer's Night Dream
William Shakespeare is famous for his timeless plays and poems that multiple classes, as well as eras, can enjoy. In this particular production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream used many modern ideas to improve the audience’s understanding of the play. Along with the use of vocal expression, props and sets help develop the story further. Bicycles, created in 1817, were not present in Shakespeare’s life, and therefore not in his plays, either. However, the 1999 film used bikes for many purposes. First of all, the lovers (Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia) use these two-wheeled contraptions for transportation when they journey into the forest. While in the forest, Puck is intrigued by Lysander’s bike and steals it while he’s

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