A Midsummer Night’s Dream is about two lovers who can’t be together because Hermia’s father won’t let her and Lysander get married so they try to run away. Shakespeare was influenced through many things that led him to writing the play. The play was a counterpart to Romeo and Juliet. The Pyramus and Thisbe story is also connected to the play. Midsummer Night’s Dream has a lot background and historical context. Shakespeare had an interesting life leading up to his writing of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare has no birth records but he was baptized on april 26, 1564. He married a girl named Anne Hathaway and they had three kids together, but one of their kids died at the age of eleven. Shakespeare had 7 years after his kids were born where there was no records of work of his. ‘Scholars call this period the ‘lost years’ and there is wide speculation on what he was doing during this period” (a&e). In the 1590’s he was a managing partner in an acting company called the Lords Chamberlain Men. …show more content…
The biggest thing that inspired him to write the play was Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He would read it as a child in Latin. It is believed that Shakespeare wrote the play for a wedding and that Queen Elizabeth I was in attendance. Critics said that dance was a big part of the play “suggesting that the rhythm of the play’s poetry and the movement of the characters in and out of scenes have an underlying dance rhythm” (cliff notes). Different things inspired Shakespeare to write the play a certain