It is common of Shakespeare to be as creative in his writing as to write a play within a play. In A Midsummer's Night Dream, so-called actors gathered to perform a play titled Pyramus and Thisbe for the Duke and Duchess at their wedding. Although, there are qualities of the two plays that distinctly set them apart. A Midsummer's Night Dream, the "good- play, was written in a well-thought out and entertaining writing style while Pyramus and Thisbe was not sophisticated, complex, or even comedic. .
Certainly both plays include main characters and their objectives, although characters with distinguishing personas are found in A Midsummer's Night Dream. For example, Puck is definitely a fairy addicted to practical jokes and humor; Titania is a kind-but-stern fairy queen throughout the play. Pyramus and Thisbe does not give as many examples of character qualities. Yes, their goals in the play are understood, but the reader is hardly given a chance to really get to know each character. In A Midsummer's Night Dream, the reader is given a certain perspective of everyone; Pyramus and Thisbe does not. .
In a comical sense, the characters in Pyramus and Thisbe merely hold a light to A Midsummer's Night Dream. Both plays are meant to be comedies; however, one is undisputedly more amusing. A Midsummer's Night Dream is divertingly witty while Pyramus and Thisbe is simply ludicrous "even stupid. The characters in A Midsummer's Night Dream play pranks on others and speak with wittiness; Pyramus and Thisbe is "comedic- just because the actors made them funny by acting foolishly. The plays hold two completely different senses of comedy.
The plot of Pyramus and Thisbe gave proof that it is a bad play with its impulsive characters and lack of detail. In Pyramus and Thisbe, a lion emerges in the forest and seizes Thisbe's cloak when they run away into the forest; Pyramus sees the bloodied cloak and rashly kills himself.