A Midsummer Night's Dream: Humor

Shakespeare uses many ways to portray humor and make his plays a success
because of it. He created a careful mix of love with humor to create a success
called "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The focus of this paper is to describe how
Shakespeare uses humor in his play.

One way that Shakespeare uses humor in this play is by using plain humor that
need not be interpreted in any way. He did this by creating the artisans. The
artisans, obviously are not intelligent at all, but try to be. They mess up
grammar, spelling, and everything that the author of "Pyramus and Thisby" had
wanted for his play. For instance, when Bottom says "Thisbe, the flowers of
odious savors sweet,"82 he was supposted to say ‘odors' instead of ‘odious' in
the sentence. Odors means "fragrant smells," while odious means "repulsive." A
simple mistake by someone that is low in the society, but totally changes the
meaning of the sentence. This humor is obvious to everybody......

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Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Humor
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