![]() So even as the lovers and Theseus make fun of the laborers' ridiculous performance, the audience, which is watching the lovers watch the laborers' play, is aware that the lovers had been just as absurd.Ī Midsummer Night's Dream also contains a second, subtler, play within a play. Third, the laborers' play parodies much of the rest of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Pyramus and Thisbe are lovers who, facing opposition from their parents, elope, just as Hermia and Lysander do. Second, it allows Shakespeare to comment on the nature of art and theater, primarily through the laborer's own confused belief that the audience won't be able to distinguish between fiction and reality. ![]() First, the laborer's mistakes and misunderstandings introduce a strand of farce to the comedy of the larger play. ![]() The most obvious example is the laborers' performance of Pyramus and Thisbe, and their inept production serves three important functions in the larger structure of the larger play. ![]() A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play containing other plays. ![]()
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