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‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ Discuss
Sorrel Nation

Within the play, ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’, the importance of courtship and marriage is indicated, as is that of love and marriage. One of the ideas in the play is that there is a significant difference between ‘doting’ and ‘loving’, something like the distinction between fancying someone and loving them. The play also presents love as a kind of madness and way of looking at someone and admiring them as if they where magic. Love is often presented as a good thing, yet in the play ‘love and reason keep little company together’. The variety of relationships provides parallels and contrasts allowing a range of other themes to be explored. One of those in particular being conflict and change, demonstrating that ‘the course of true love never did run smooth’.

Theseus and Hippolyta are rich, indulged......

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