Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Institut fur Anglistik), course: Literature and Metamorphosis, language: English, abstract: A Midsummer Nights Dream (from here on in referred to simply as Midsummer), Shakespeares popular comedy about the fickleness and difficulty of love, has been written around 1594 and 1596, most likely as an entertainment piece for a royal festivity (Barber, 1959). An often cited and likely possibility for its first performance was the wedding reception of...