A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream marks the maturation of William Shakespeare's comic form beyond situation and young romantic love. One plot focuses on finding young love and on overcoming obstacles to that love. Shakespeare adds to the richness of comic structure by interweaving the love plot with a cast of rustic guildsmen, who are out of their element as they strive to entertain the ruler with a classic play of their own (Shakespeare, 35). The play also features a substructure of fairy forces, whose unseen antics influence the world of humans. With this invisible substructure of ...