How does Shakespeare create humor in Act 5 Scene 1 in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?William Shakespeare is the author of the comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream". This play was written around 1595. In this essay I will answer the question how Shakespeare creates humor in Act 5 Scene 1. There are many reasons why the play was funny; one of the main reasons was the staging where you would have the actual audience, the court on stage and on the original stage you would have the mechanics perform. The other reasons why Shakespeare creates humor concern the characters (fairies, court and mechanics) and the repetitive and incorrect use of language and errors. An example of this would be when in scene 1 of act 5 Bottom says “O dark-looking night, O night…….O night, O wall”. This shows how ignorant Bottom is and that he is terribly bad at acting. This also shows how fickle he is, one minute he says "O wall" and the next minute he says "O wall" (he changes his opinion very quickly, this adds humor). The three sets of characters are the ago...