A Descriptive Bibliography Of Shakespeare s A Midsummer...

A Descriptive Overview of Shakespeare’s â€Å"A Midsummer Night’s Dream† William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and grew up in Strafford-upon-Avon. He wrote â€Å"A Midsummer Night’s Dream† in his early years as a playwright. He also wrote the play is a mixture of romance and comedy. It tells the story of four young people who fall in love with each other with the aid of magic. Shakespeare managed to create a dream world for the audience using the characters tied to a plot filled with antics and themes that everyone can relate with. However, some of the roles in the play show the male role as superior to the female’s role. â€Å"Midsummer Night’s Dream† would be considered a modern day romantic comedy. It uses New Comedy Style1, that â€Å"concentrate on the more common situations† versus the Old Comedy style that focuses â€Å"on brutal attacks on individuals (Martin 228). Shakespeare’s meaning of comedy is, â€Å"going for order and structure to chaos and back to a happy ending using many twists and turns† (Moore). The play was published in sections â€Å"1600 with the First Quarto, the Second Quarto in 1619, and in 1623 the First Folio† (Moore). Shakespeare did borrow characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s story â€Å"The Knight’s Tale† main characters, Theseus and Hippolyta (Moore). Other’s believe he also borrowed some of his plot from other works, â€Å"The Golden Ass by Apuleius, Life of Theseus by Plutartch, King James IV by Robert Greene, The Metamorphoses by Ovid, Terrors of the