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The plays a midsummer nights dream alls well that ends well antony and cleopatra as you like it the comedy of errors coriolanus cymbeline hamlet. Themes love and marriage order and disorder appearance and reality creative imagination motifs recurring elements and patterns of imagery in a midsummer nights dream which support the plays themes nature the moon sleep and dreams. The introduction describes the two main traditions in the stage history, one emphasising charm and innocence, the other stressing darker suggestions of violence and sexuality, and relates them to similar traditions in critical interpretation, showing that both are. A midsummer night s dream is a romantic comedy by william shakespeare, suggested by the knights tale from geoffrey chaucers the canterbury tales, written around 1594 to 1596.
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