MSND: Key facts Flashcards

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Full title

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Author

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William Shakepeare

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Type of work

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Play

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Genres

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Confident, fantasy, romance farce

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Language

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English

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Narrator

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None

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Protagonist

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Puck (generally considered the most important character)

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Setting ( time )

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Combines elements of Ancient Greek with elements of Renaissance England

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Setting ( place )

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Athens and the forest outside its walls

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Tense

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Present

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Foreshadowing

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Comments made about difficulties that lovers face

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Tones

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Romantic, comedic, fantastic, satirical, dreamlike, joyful, farcical

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Symbols

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Theseus and Hippolyta represent order’ stability and wakefulness. Theseus’. Oberon’s love potion represents the power and instability of love

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Themes

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The difficulties of love, magic, the nature of dreams, the relationships between fantasy and reality and between environment and experience

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