The play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare is about three different groups of characters. ... The fairies appear but briefly, and only Puck remains to ask the audience for it's forgiveness and tells them to remember this all as a dream....
A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's early "festive comedies,"" written around 1595-6. Despite the many thematic references to "dreams- and the fantastic setting of the Athenian forest, the play also contains a fair amount of commentary on Shakespeare's contemporary English world. The play's title, for instance, refers to an English holiday custom: on "Midsummer Eve,"" or the night of the summer solstice on June 23, English men and women would spend the night outdoors around bonfires, telling supernatural tales of fairies and witchcraft. ... By making the ...
Melissa Sweeney English 3150-Section 7 May 13, 2002 Foolish Lovers Puck a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream says, "Lord what fools these mortals be" (3.2.115). ... The four young lovers of A Midsummer Night's Dream act in ways that are not logical. ... Work Cited Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd ed. ...
