How Does Shakespeare Create Humor in Act 5, Scene 1 of the Play “A Midsummer Night's Dream » ? William Shakespeare is the author of the comic play “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. This play was written around 1595. In this essay, I will answer the question of how Shakespeare creates humor in Act 5 Scene 1. There are many reasons why the play was humorous; one of the main reasons was the staging: you would have the real audience, the land on stage and on the original stage you would have the mechanics playing. Other reasons why Shakespeare creates humor has to do with the characters (fairies, court and mechanics) and the incorrect and repetitive use of language and mistakes. An example of this could be when, in Act 5, Scene 1, Bottom says “O dark night, O night…….O night, O wall”. This shows how uneducated Bottom is and that he is terribly bad as an actor. This also shows how fickle he is, one minute he says "O wall" and the next minute he says "O wall" (he changes his mind very quickly, this adds to the humor). The three sets of characters are the fa...