Question

Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Use the passages to
answer the
question. Select
Passage 1 and
Passage 2.
Which detail from
Shakespeare’s play
signals that the play is
meant to create a
different feeling for the
audience than the
source material?
(1 point)
the bantering
dialogue
the inclusion of
the lion
the use of characters from the fable
the use of characters from the fable

the choice to frame the fable as a play within a play

Answer 1

the choice to frame the fable as a play within a play

By presenting the tragic Pyramus and Thisbe story as an amateur performance by the Mechanicals, Shakespeare turns the source material into comic, farcical entertainment rather than a straight tragedy.