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GCSE English Coursework

‘A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of Shakespeare's best-known comedies. With close reference to two scenes, show and discuss the variety of different kinds of comedy possible to be found in the play

‘A Midsummer Night's Dream' hereon after referred to as MND, has its plot closely circled around comedy. There is something potentially funny about every single character in the play. However, almost no one will find every character funny. Shakespeare has accommodated for most senses of humour. He has verbal comedy, an example from a television programme today would be ‘Dead Ringers' in which celebrities and politicians alike are impersonated and their personalities exaggerated. Also, for the perhaps less intellectual people, there is straight forward slapstick humour, people falling over etc. In Shakespeare's time, the people that would understand vocal comedy would be the professional middle class, who would be educated and able to understand......

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