In Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” a wedding takes place between a duke, Theseus, and a woman knows as Hippolyta. At their wedding, a group of craftsmen have decided to perform a play for not only the couple being married but also for the guests. Judging by the genre of their play, a tragedy, it is immediately clear that the craftsmen may not be the most intellectual people. The play they perform, “The Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe,” does not come across as a tragedy to the audience. The crowd seems to find it quite comical. Due to factors such as figurative language, repetition, and an overall lack of acting skills from the craftsmen, one can understand why the play was comic to the audience and why they chose tears of laughter over tears of sadness whilst watching.
It is almost impossible to perform a play without some form of figurative language being present. In “The Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe,” there is an overuse of figurative language.
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“Speak, speak. Quite dumb? Dead, Dead? A tomb… Are gone, are gone… Come, come to me… Adieu, adieu, adieu,” (5.1. 329-49), it is evidently clear that there is a lot of repetition in her speech and it starts to create a rhythm. Eventually, one gets tired of reading repetition or listening to it and this was also the case with the audience. The repetition drags the performance on and makes it over the top. The audience are ready for the play to be over and it becomes quite humorous to them that Thisbe is trying to have a heartfelt, dramatic, final scene whilst the audience laugh at the ridiculousness of what they are having to watch. Repeating goodbye before Thisbe kills herself only makes it that much more dramatic and the audience have no connection with her, instead they are waiting on her to stay on the ground and stop talking. This usually is not how one wants their audience to feel in a