The document provides notes on William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It summarizes that the play is a comedy and fantasy involving mis-understandings caused by a love potion, with Puck as the architect creating chaos in the woods outside Athens through magic and dreams. The themes explore love, magic, dreams versus reality, and how environment shapes experience.

1. Midsummer Night’s Dream
Some notes

2. COMEDY, FANTASY,
ROMANCE, FARCE
NO REAL CLIMAX

3. THE REAL
PROTAGONIST IS
PUCK
HE IS THE
ARCHITECT OF
THE PLOT

4. SETTINGS
ATHENS AND THE FOREST
OUTSIDE

5. MASK
MIS-
UNDERSTAND-
INGS

6. SYMBOLS
LOVE POTION
INCONSTANCY IN PASSION
THESEUS
REPRESENTS ORDER, THE GOOD RULER
THESEUS
REPRESENTS ORDER, THE GOOD RULER

7. THEMES
The difficulties of love;
magic;
the nature of dreams;
the relationships between
fantasy and reality and
between environment and
experience

8. TONES
ROMANTIC; FANTASTIC;
SATIRICAL; DREAMLIKE;
JOYFUL

9. PLAY-INTO-
PLAY
DRAMA AS A
SORT OF
ILLUSION

10. WITTY
DIALOGUES
WORDS
RECREATING
NEW WORLDS