< A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream/Funny
- The Wall's monologue in the play within a play.
- In fact, any time that the Rude Mechanicals are on stage. Bottom and Quince are made of funny.
- Here's an especially impassioned production of the Play Within a Play, by a talented group of humorists.
- Specific to a certain production (London, in 2006, by the Royal Shakespeare Company), but...
- "'I go, I go; look how I go,/Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow!' Puck delivers this line with great enthusiasm... before plodding slowly off stage right.
- "I am speechless and have nothing to say." For some reason, it's one of my favorite lines in theatre ever.
- Oberon's "I am invisible, and will overhear their conference" is pretty funny considering he's been on stage, completely visible, for an entire scene.
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