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A Midsummer’s Night Dream is an incredibly popular comedy, by a great playwright, and arguably the main comedy character in the play is Bottom, the weaver, who throughout the play entertains the audience with blundering and incompetence. His main roles of comedy are in three main scenes, the casting, the rehearsal and the performance of the play ‘The Comedy of the Two Lovers, Pyramus and Thisby’, a play which Bottom and his friends are set upon performing for the duke of Athens at his wedding. Bottom, is a pompous character who is incredibly full of himself and thinks that he is the greatest thing to happen to the stage, however in reality he is actually a complete buffoon, constantly mixing up his lines and making a fool of himself, and this is where his main comic role comes.

Without Bottom in the play, the story wouldn’t work nearly as well, as he is central to most parts of it. The rehearsal and casting scenes would have had a little humour without him, but......

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