Comparison of Shakespeare's comedies: "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Twelfth Night", and "Much Ado About Nothing."

When Shakespeare wrote his comedies, he didn't write them to be funny. He wrote them with a pattern. The comedies have many similarities, such as characterization, theme, plot, and language, hidden in them that one would not see without analyzing the plays. For example, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing all have much in common. Each comedy contains many themes. One similar one, however, is the theme of love, deceit, …

…lower class, however, talked in long, and sometimes run on, sentences. They mixed up their words and didn't talk in rhyme or stanza. Shakespeare obviously had much in mind when he was writing his comedies. He wrote them all around the same time period and that may be why the same themes and plot are carried throughout each of them. The comedies are a lot alike, one just has to dig to figure them out.