Archetypes present in Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream was written and produced during a period of English history that was not the most productive for farming. In fact it was a time when nature was anything but typical. During the years of 1594 – 97, England had undergone four bad harvests in a row, an odd weather pattern turned normally warm summer days into chilly winter ones. The overwhelming number of peasant farmers, most …showed first 75 words of 1342 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1342 total…These types of archetypes are the same kind that Shakespeare more than likely used when writing Midsummer Night’s Dream such subtle references that we do not put much thought into and yet somehow know of their importance, are exactly the same kind used in the play. Bibliography Works Cited http://homepages.go.com/~fulnet/gobump/020599.html http://quarles.unbc.ca/midsummer/mythintro.html Jacobus, Lee A. The Bedford Inroduction to Drama Boston: Bedford Books, 1997