Topic > An act comparison between Romeo and Juliet and A...

Shakespeare does interesting things with his lyrics and when you really look at them, it's crazy how similarly they can be compared. The acts tend to play out in almost the same format if you understand them well enough. Shakespeare does this in a very clever way, which is one of the reasons why he is so amazing and so well known. The two plays that are relatively close are Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The first three acts have a parallel structure. In Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, in the first act of both plays they are similar because there are many different love misunderstandings, in the second act as now the two lovers are together and are on the way to their marriage, and in the third act love gets confused and chaos breaks out. For starters, in the plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, they compare a lot in the first acts of the play as there are many different love misunderstandings. . Romeo is madly in love with Rosaline, but in a split second he falls in love with Juliet. Love becomes even more confusing when in the other play, Helen...