which century was this play first enacted in?
17th century
A Midsummer Night's Dream
. The earliest such piece of criticism that she found was a 1662 entry in the diary of Samuel Pepys.
who plays moonshine in a midsummer night's dream Robin Starveling what is the latter mentioned above? A comedy play who is the playwright? William Shakespeare what is the main theme in it? Love, Problem with time, Loss of individual identity, Ambiguous sexuality, Feminism..
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A Midsummer Night's Dream [SEP] 17th century
Dorothea Kehler has attempted to trace the criticism of the work through the centuries. The earliest such piece of criticism that she found was a 1662 entry in the diary of Samuel Pepys. He found the play to be "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life". He did, however, admit that it had "some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure". The next critic known to comment on the play was John Dryden, writing in 1677. He was preoccupied with the question of whether fairies should be depicted in theatrical plays, since they did not exist.