MidSummer Nights Dream
... Shapiro Non Rational Behaviors in A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a unique play, which depicts non rationalities in heterosexual love and artistic creativity throughout its entirety. ... The story of Pyramus and Thisbe provides parallels to some of the main elements of A Midsummer Nights Dream: lovers taking non-rational actions after parental disapproval, overall non-rational behavior of lovers and artists and a necessity for non rationality. First, the mechanical’s play within A Midsummer Night’s Dream shows many similarities to the story of the lovers in the outer play. ... There are many similarities in the mechanical’s version of “Pyramus and Thisbe” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.