\paperw5085 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 Shakespeare devoted much of the middle period of his creative life to comedy. The most famous of these works are \i
A Midsummer NightÆs Dream\i0 and \i Twelfth Night\i0 , which both appeared around 1600. Part of the delight of \i A \ATXnt901 Midsummer NightÆs Dream\i0 \ATXnt0 is the way the author mixes the fantastical world and language of Oberon, the King of the
Fairies, with the rough, earthy speech and ways of the players brought in to provide the Duke of Athens with theatrical entertainment. The main plots of both this work and \i Twelfth Night \i0 involve unrecognised or unrequited love, around which Shakes
