A Midsummer Night's Gene - Andrew Harman

Advantages: Very Funny and Entertaining
Disadvantages: Confusing at times

...A Midsummer Night’s Dream “…the most insipid and ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life.” Samuel Pepys (1662) Is this comment about ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ an accurate judgement on the reaction of the audience to the play, or do you believe its themes and characters are relevant and important? The play ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ involves four lovers running into the woods to escape an overpowering father and the duke of Athens. It also features a group of men named “the mechanicals” who are constructing a play named “Pyramus and Thisbe” which will be performed at the wedding of the duke of Athens’s, Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, once Queen of the Amazons. All of these events are followed by the fairies, in the mysterious woods outside... Read review

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Advantages: Funnier than other Shekaspeare plays
Disadvantages: The language is hard to understand.

...In the play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare, there are three different sets of characters and I am going to be discussing the theme of love and marriage and how each set is affected by this. The first set of characters within the play are the lords and ladies which consists of four main characters who are all affected by love in different ways. To begin with, Demetrius is being forced to wed Hermia by her father, Egeus. Hermia does not like this as she has loved Lysander forwhatseems as an eternity in their eyes. Helena, the one who loves Demetrius, is always pestering him to take her back but he doesn't love her so therefore, he intends to marry Hermia. When Hermia and Lysander decide to run away however, all sorts of adventures take place and create a very enjoyable play within the human's story. However... Read review

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Advantages: Very funny, easy to read
Disadvantages: Hmmm....

...Where to start? Good question, I’ve never reviewed a book before and let me tell you, it’s a daunting prospect. After having read many book op’s I decided to give it a go myself and now that CIAO have finally added Andrew Harman to their list of authors I have somewhere to start. (Not that I only read Andrew Harman it’s just that I’m currently reading through some of his stuff so it is fresh in my mind) Now, as I said before I’ve been reading other book op’s and this has scared me. Most of them read like professional reviews (gulp!) and I just thought I’d better warn you: I know nothing about ‘literature’, I’ve not read loads, I don’t know all the proper terminology. I just like what I like, so this op is my personal opinion of the book, not an in-depth analysis... Read review

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