The night forest provides a setting for dangerous and daring acts such as Hermia and Lysander's plan to escape Athens. ... Shakespeare associates the moon with love. ... She lingers my desires/ Like to a step-dame" (Act 1, Scene 1, 2-5). ... Shakespeare uses symbolism to strengthen the motif of night; he uses symbols associated with the night. ... Shakespeare includes the aspect of vision and its relation to darkness. ...
Theseus acts with calmness and consideration but is decisive. ... Shakespeare's portrayal of Oberon reflects his position in the drama of the rational world of civilised man. In contrast Shakespeare portrays Oberon as King of the fairies who are citizens of an opposite world in which the normal laws of society are turned upside down or ignored. ... (Act 5 scene 1 lines 28-30) Oberon concludes his work with the lines "May all to Athens back again repair and think no more of this nights accidents but as the fierce vexation of a dream"....
Performances of Shakespeare's plays are not isolated, unrelated occurrences. ... So, due to the position of adaptations of Shakespeare's plays within a large cultural framework one can analyse and explain the appearance of an adaptation. ... I will start with a general analysis of the topic related to Shakespeare's text. ... Indeed, Shakespeare's text suggests that the magical creatures of A Midsummer Night's Dream could be explained as physical allegories of nature. ... Shakespeare's Puck himself acknowledges that he is the cause of little domestic accidents. ...
