A Midsummer Night Dream Essay

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Abstract: Epic theatre which comes to being by Erwin Piscator and comes to fame by Brecht is a mode of representing theatre to the audience in a way that they feel detached from it and come to their rationale instead of their emotions, therefore, stop sympathising with the characters of the play. Although, this Epic Theatre movement is belonging to 20th century, Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night Dream shows obvious traces of this mode of representation. When in a play within a play, through Peter Quince- one of the characters of the play- he gives us some hints to how to represent the play in a way that the audiences, and above all women do not afraid of them he is actually giving hints for detaching the audiences and preventing them from