A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Language and Writing

Combining an exploration of Shakespeares language with specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills, this lively and informative guide uses close reading of A Midsummer Nights Dream to explore its themes and plot. A Midsummer Nights Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeares diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and warbling notes and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottoms comic malapropisms.