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Today we are going to continue learning about his comedies. As you know we have

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introduced A Midsummer Night's Dream and we're gonna continue with some of the

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common traits Shakespearean comedies and Shakespearean tragedies share.

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Shakespearean comedies have a light-hearted ending. They are happy.

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You're not gonna cry at the end of them or you're not gonna cry out of sadness

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at least. Unless you love weddings then you might cry. There are mistaken

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identities which means characters are going to confuse each other so you might

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take your brother for your sister. There are clever plot twists which means that

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things don't look the way they are. So usually around the middle of the play

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you're gonna see that things change and they went the way we expected them to be.

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There are gonna be lots of puns which means witty language. Shakespeare loved

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playing with the language and he's going to use it a lot in his plays. And also

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stock characters that means stereotypical and these stereotypical

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characters that we can find in A Midsummer Night's Dream are the young

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couple, the fool, the clever servant. Well in A Midsummer Night's Dream it's gonna

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be the clever fairy. Clever and a little bit mischievous. Then we've got

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Shakespearean tragedies. Here the hero shows a fatal weakness. That fatal

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weakness is gonna lead him to his downfall which usually is his death.

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This downfall is gonna be provoked by an evil spirit or some manipulative

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character who, surprise surprise, usually is a woman. You are also gonna find lots

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of metaphors and similes. Remember metaphors is basically adding a

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characteristic of something to something that we think is similar. For example

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saying that someone's a serpent by meaning they're evil. Or similes.

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Similes are more of a straight comparison. Here you're gonna find like, us, or us

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whatever, us. For example saying dead as a doornail which is an expression

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Shakespeare created to mean someone's dead and we still use nowadays. There are

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many expressions that we can find Shakespeare's plays that we use

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nowadays. Here are some of them. You've got Mum's the word, it's Greek to me,

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Walgood's chase. These are some of the ones that I have included in this

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presentation. You have to just search for the meaning of them and tell me about it

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in our next class. If you find any other expression that Shakespeare created

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please bring it to class and we'll discuss it tomorrow. Bye-bye!