Feminism in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Lysistrata”
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An eight page paper looking at the issue of feminism in these two plays by William Shakespeare and Aristophanes, respectively. The paper argues that both writers mocked women -- in “Lysistrata” because they were too unfeminine, and in “Midsummer Night’s Dream” because they were too irrational -- and shows how both plays call for a return to an ordered society at the end. No additional sources.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act II, Scene II
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This 4 page report discusses the second scene of Act II of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' from the perspective of a director and determining what the scene needs to accomplish. The scene is also examined for what it does to help explain the plot and continue to develop characters in the larger context of appearance and reality. No additional sources cited.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream / Shakespeare's Influence on Artists and Audiences
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A 6 page discussion of the importance of interpreting Midsummer Night's Dream to artists and audiences, whether as observers or readers. Rather than looking at a priori interpretations (although these are presented), the most important facet of interpreting this play is that the interpretation itself speaks to the audience for the specifics of teaching value in school and other life events. Not only is this view supported by contemporary evidence, but also by Shakespeare himself in the play through the words of Quince. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream / Shakespeare's Use Of Puns
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This 5 page report discusses the puns William Shakespeare loved to sprinkle throughout his work with a special look to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' Also discusses The Bard, Tragedy Of Cymbeline, & others. No additional sources cited.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream / Significance of ‘Rude Mechanicals'
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This 5 page research paper examines Shakespeare's use of the ‘rude mechanicals' and the purpose they serve in his fantasy play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream / The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smoothly
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In 5 pages, the author discusses "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. The play is all about star-crossed lovers. Lysander was in love with Hermia, but her father was forcing her to marry Demetrius, whom she did not love. Helena was in love with Demetrius, but Demetrius was in love with Hermia. Theseus was looking forward to marrying Hippolyta, but she was not of the same mind. The play affirms the assumption that 'the course of true love never did run smoothly." Bibliography lists 4 sources other than the play.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream / Theme Of 'Unreality'
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A 5 page paper discussing the theme of unreality in Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Love
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A 6 page paper which examines love in various relationships in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Social Disruption and the Supernatural
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A 5 page discussion of Shakespeare’s play in the context of societal order and disorder. This paper contends that the supernatural element of the fairies in this play actually overrode the importance of the theme of young love. It was only through the actions of the fairies, however, that societal stability would be restored. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: MISTAKEN IDENTITY
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This 4 page paper discusses the role of mistaken idenity in Shakespeare's works: Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night's Dream. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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A Midsummer’s Night Dream
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A 3 page paper which illustrates how Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream is a story about the ups and downs of love. No additional sources cited.
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Act III: Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 3 page paper which analyzes Act III in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as it relates to the rest of the story. No additional sources cited.
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Athenian Woods in William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 5 page paper which examines the way in which the woods are presented in the play. No additional sources are used.
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Battle of the Sexes in “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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This 7 page paper examines William Shakespeare’s wonderful play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with regard to the couples in the play who are fighting, why they are doing so, and how the conflicts are resolved.
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Comedy and Poetic Imagination in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 5 page paper which examines how comedy and poetic imagination come together in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” No additional sources cited.
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Comparative Analysis of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest”
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A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the way in which the theme of reality vs. illusion is portrayed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Comparative Analysis of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts these plays on the basis of mood, setting, imagery, theme, magic, characters and plot structure. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Conflicting Values in Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 10 page paper which examines conflicting values and emotional tensions within the families of Shakespeare’s works lead to disruption and damage. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Derrida, Literature and “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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This 10 page paper examines Derrida’s theory of literature and whether or not it is useful in teaching the subject; it also touches on how it might be applied to Shakespeare’s wonderful comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Fathers in William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 6 page paper which examines the similarities and differences between Baptista Minola and Egeus, particularly the relationships with their children, their roles and status in their respective societies, and their effect on the play’s progress. No additional sources are used.
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Female Attachment in the Plays of William Shakespeare
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This 6 page paper considers the fact that in both a Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing, substantial expressions of attachment between female characters can be noted. This paper integrates a view of the importance of these attachments and the impacts that these have in terms of the overall thematic progression of the plays and the other relationships that exist. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Foolishness In A Midsummer Night's Dream;
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This 6 page paper considers the way in which Shakespeare perceives and presents his characters in this well known comedy. The characters are seen to be foolish and easily manipulated due to the sway that love and jealousy have over their emotions and subsequent behaviour. The examines the actions of different characters including Titania, Oberon, Helena, Demetrius, Hermia and Lysander. Quotes for the play are used to illustrate the points raised. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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Hermia's Speech/Midsummer Night's Dream
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A 4 page essay that analyzes Hermia's speech from Act II, scene ii, lines 146-156. The writer argues that close examination of this speech not only gives the reader insight into Hermia's character, but also it emphasizes the danger that she faces in pursuing her own course for her life, as her choice of Lysander could result in her death. No other sources cited.
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Interpretations of Midsummer Night's Dream
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A 9 page research paper that explores the various in which Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream has been viewed and interpreted. Bibliography lists 11 sources. s
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Loyalty in Love -- Shakespearean Style
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This 5 page report discusses the idea and ideal of loyalty in the love relationships of characters in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Love’s Labor’s Lost.” Shakespeare regularly explored issues of love in loyalty in his plays. Many of the characters and the circumstances in which he presented them caused the audience to consider what they thought was the appropriate action for the character to take in terms of their actions proving their love and their loyalty to their loved one. No additional sources.
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Mythology in Shakespeare
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This 5 page paper considers how mythology was used by Shakespeare in three of his plays in order to create atmosphere. The plays considered are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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Puck as Protagonist in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 4 page paper which examines how Puck could well be considered the protagonist in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” No additional sources cited.
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Quince's Prologue in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
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An eleven page paper looking at the significance of this seemingly comic passage in the final act of William Shakespeare's play. The paper asserts that it is actually fraught with sociological and political meaning. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Setting in Shakespeare's, "A Midsummer Night's Dream":
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This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the "real" world of Athens in Shakespeare's, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", versus the dream world of the woods outside of the city. This paper analyzes why Shakespeare uses these two different worlds and to what end. Additionally, this paper seeks to determine which setting was ultimately more powerful. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Shakespeare & Thomas/Midsummer & White Hotel
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An 8 page research paper that discusses the aspects of Freudian psychology in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and D.C. Thomas' The White Hotel. The writer argues that Freud's theories play a major role in both works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Shakespeare on Film: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A 7 page paper which presents an examination of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as a film for children. The paper discusses elements of the play, the audience, sets, and other aspects which need to be considered. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'/ Shakespeare's Enduring Epiphany
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A 4 page paper which examines one of Shakespeare's most appealing epiphanies, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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5 pages in length. Shakespeare is just as manipulative in his comedic style as other playwrights are in their tragedies; however, the primary difference between the two is that Shakespeare presents such seemingly tragic events as being overblown and ridiculous, which encourages the audience to laugh both at and with the plot. As well, Shakespearean drama is often seen as quiet and pastoral; there is however, another side of his work: dealing with conflict between human beings. These collective elements of Shakespearean drama are particularly evident in A Midsummer Night's Dream, where presentation of the Athenian court in Act I and the world of the fairies in Act II clearly illustrates the extent to which Shakespeare addresses social, historical, cultural content. No bibliography.
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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This 5 page paper focuses attention on the theme of rebellion and then also goes into the significance of the woods. Specific acts and scenes are noted and the plot is discussed, along with other thematic elements. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Shakespeare's Treatment of Romantic Love
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This 7 page paper explores the concept of romantic love primarily through the eyes of William Shakespeare. 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' are discussed in respect to the concept. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Staging a Historically Accurate Production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 6 page paper which examines how to stage this play based on the dramatic element of spectacle described in Aristotle’s “Poetics” and considers the major themes the play dramatizes, how the classification of the play as a comedy affects staging, appearance of the characters (i.e., age, class) and the style of dress. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Staging the "Dream"
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This 5 page paper discusses ways in which A Midsummer Night's Dream might be staged. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Supernatural in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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A 5 page paper which examines the supernatural in Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” No additional sources cited.
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The Changing View of Romance in Shakespeare’s Later Works
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This 7 page report discusses Shakespeare’s own understanding of the essential nature of love which allows him to establish a variety of realms in which the realities of romance are interwoven throughout all aspects of life. Romance gone wrong, romance perverted, or the “romantic” aspects of fear, hatred, and suffering, appear much more often in his later works than in his earlier “romances.” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Twelfth Night” and “Antony and Cleopatra” are considered. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Comedy and Tragedy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
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This 10 page report discusses Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” should understand that it contains both the elements of comedy and tragedy. Throughout the play, reality and illusion that are mixed and matched through the comic results of misunderstanding. The characters in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” are constantly in a state of change and that process of change goes against how society’s (and the audiences’) view of how the world should work and how it usually works. People are revealed as creatures and spirits who can act on the impulses and insights that their original personalities would never allow. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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THE CONVENTIONS OF SHAKESPEARIAN ROMANTIC COMEDY
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This 6 page paper discusses the conventions of romantic comedy and where they are present in Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Quotes cited from the text. Bibliographpy lists 3 sources.
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The Moon And A Midsummer Night's Dream
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The key to understanding William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, is understanding the symbolism of the moon. This 5 page paper argues that A Midsummer's Night Dream is a comedic play that encompasses the theme of change and transformation using the symbolism of the moon, among other aspects, to enlighten the audience as to its purpose. No additional sources are listed.
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The Natural World As Depicted in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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A 5 page paper which examines how the importance of the natural world in this whimsical fantasy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Supernatural in A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A 5 page paper which discusses events, settings, characters, plot, and phrases which relate to the supernatural in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Bibliography lists 8 additional sources.
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The Theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem
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This 3 page paper discusses the main theme of Shakespeare’s great comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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