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3. Fate and the Fantastical
Shakespeare’s comedies enjoy invoking the supernatural and tend to portray humans as mere play-things in some grand mystical game. The fairies Puck and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream mischievously toy with the characters’ emotions throughout the play, so everything the characters experience is interpreted as being due to the impish wiles of magical beings. Whether through strife or tenacity, all character revelations in Shakespeare’s comedies are seen as being due to events beyond human control, or even our mortal understanding, which is why audiences still find it funny today.
In another instance, the use of magic in making one’s thoughts a reality is the inciting moment in The Tempest, as without Prospero’s meddling there would be no shipwreck and therefore Viola would never have arrived in Illyria in the first place. Again, magic is deemed as the unseen motivator of human struggle, a catalyst which subjects characters to wrestle with life’s little ironies to a point where humour often arises. Given comedies end happily, you could say all’s well that ends well (if you’ll pardon the reference), despite the complicated machinations of fate, but Shakespeare’s comedies often rely on the fantastical to provide an explanation for the convoluted goings-on of our everyday struggles.
4. Idyllic Settings
It’s remarkable just how many settings in Shakespeare’s comedies are given idyllic and almost fantastical settings—there’s the Forest of Arden in As You Like It, an enchanted wood outside the city of Athens in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the mysterious island of Illyria in Twelfth Night. Each location has been carefully brought to life by Shakespeare to depict perfection—lands which only convey the world as we would wish it to be, havens of tranquillity and rich in nature. This is no accident on Shakespeare’s part, of course.
The main reason why Shakespeare enjoyed setting his comedies in almost paradise-like locations is because, more often than not, things tend to go wrong in these plays.
Mistakes are made, complications are rife, misunderstandings always arise, so when audiences see how characters living in paradise engage in mishaps too, it only underscores the comedy. After all, if things can go awry in seemingly perfect worlds, it becomes strangely comforting to those of us who live in the real world. This is why many find Shakespeare’s comedies so resonant today, as it proves that if things seem too good to be true, they probably are. [10, 14]