Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream

How does William Shakespeare use the play to make the audience think about aspects of love through the play ‘Midsummer Nights Dream?

The play Midsummer Nights Dream is written by William Shakespeare during the Elizabethan era. During the Elizabethan times comedies were popular and this play is also written as a comedy. Comedies during the Elizabethan times consisted of a specific story of lovers and ends with everyone marrying and living happily ever after again, some of these plays were also very funny e.g. Pyramas and Thisbe. This is very different to what we think is a comedy nowadays. In our minds a comedy would be something that makes the audience laugh and consists of many jokes. The play would have been played in the Globe arena where the audience would have consisted of both rich and poor or what they would say ‘peasants’. In the Elizabethan Era the rich and the poor were divided into two different classes. The rich were counted as first class and were given the seats in the stands to sit on. Whereas on the other hand the Peasants were forced to stand on the floor where it...