Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Shakespeare II

Based on his play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Lysander a main character explicitly states, "The course of love never runs smooth," expressing an opinion easily relatable to the modern generation.

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First I have to make it clear that I have never really thought much of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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The famous quote, “The course of true love never did run smooth,” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is explained very well through the play as it shows that true love has misunderstandings, trust issues, and huge trials....

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Puck is one of the most famous English sprites. In the Midlands he is called Robin Goodfellow, and is said to be the prototype for Robin Hood. In Ireland, he is called Pech or Puck, and is the leader of the Pixies. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare transformed him from a hobgoblin into a jovial but pranksterish wanderer of the night. In a couple of other Elizabethian plays such as The Devil is an Ass by Ben Johnson, Puck is portrayed as Belzebub’s servant in hell who was send to earth to foster evil and bring about misfortune. Puck was a failure at this because he was unable to do enough evil to please Belzebub, so he turned to Oberon for help.

The play Midsummer Nights Dream is written by William Shakespeare during the Elizabethan era.
Pop-up Globe’s resident company present Shakespeare’s magical comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Justly regarded as Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece, A Midsummer Night’s Dream enchants audiences with a brilliant mix of hilarious comedy and beautiful poetry. This new production, directed by Pop-up Globe’s Artistic Director and founder Dr Miles Gregory, fuses spectacular Jacobean costumes, and the lyrical poetry of Shakespeare with Māori folklore and language to create our flagship production for the 2017/18 Pop-up Globe season.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream becomes a commentary on the mystery of love, and lovers in general emerge shamed.

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Justly regarded as Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece, A Midsummer Night’s Dream enchants audiences with a brilliant mix of hilarious comedy and beautiful poetry. See Pop-up Globe’s all-male Buckingham’s Company in beautiful bespoke costumes transport you to an enchanted world where anything is possible and nothing is what it seems.

(Midsummer Night’s Dream, V.1.7) Despite this seeming scorn for plays and their ilk, Shakespeare is implementing a strong irony.

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In A Midsummer Nights Dream right from the begining we see the romance and drama unfold with the characters Lysander and Hermia, both madly in love but both threatened during the pursuit of their love.