How Does Shakespeare Use Dramatic Irony In A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummers Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare's most famous and successful plays. It has a lot of abstract parts to it that made it so popular. It is a comedy love play. It was written between 1595 and 1596. It portrays the event surrounding the marriage of Theseus and the Duke of Athens. A Midsummers Night’s Dream was written during one of Shakespeare's highly creative period in his career. This play discovered his more mature drama, moving away from his shallow plays that characterised earlier drama. Unlike any of shakespeare's other works A Midsummers Night’s Dream does not have any written sources. One of the classical and folkloric allusions of the play was the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, it was originally presented in Ovid’s the The Metamorphosis. Another illusion was Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding this was in the canterbury tales the “knight's tale”. In

He had the characters of the play wandering in and out of eachother's play. He did this by creating parallels and echoes between the different plays and people in one play. In A Midsummer's Night’s Dream irony and dramatic overlap each other. Dramatic irony relates to how the audience aware of the four lovers situation. Demetrius and Lysander are suddenly not in love with Helena. They do not know why they fall in love with her but the audience or the viewer does know why. Although the play A Midsummer's Night’s Dream involves a lot of love elements, it is not truly a love story. The play is so light hearted it keeps the audience never doubting that things will end happily. It helps the audience to enjoy the pay without being caught up in tension of the uncertain ending. The play of the Midsummer's Night’s Dream has a connection between Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet. This is a play with a tragedy in a comedy. In both plays the children rebel against their