A review by emilymknight
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.75

I was really pleasantly surprised by this play. Once again, I read it alongside watching Shakespeare's Globe on Screen stage play. 

At first, it took me a little bit to get into the play, it didn't click straight away and I got a little confused, but with a little help from some notes online, by Act 2 I started to really enjoy it. I think the split between fantasy and realism was well done and neither was overdone. It was an easy light-hearted play where the things that 'went wrong' weren't dark or heavy and the comedy aspect was perfect, Peter Quince and Nick Bottom absolutely carried this play. This is probably the first play where I have actually gasped and laughed out loud, especially at juice of the flower incidents - it was silly but in an enjoyable way. There wasn't loads of characters and the plot moved at a good pace too.

Simple. Funny. Interesting. Light-hearted. And I would love to see this performed live on stage one day.

"So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem."