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What is an example of high comedy in a midsummer nights dream?

An example of high comedy in A Midsummer Night's Dream is the play-within-a-play, "Pyramus and Thisbe," performed by the mechanicals. This play is full of slapstick humor and wordplay, such as when Bottom, who is playing Pyramus, mistakes a wall for Thisbe and declares his love for it. The mechanicals' performance is so bad that it is unintentionally funny, and the audience laughs at their expense.

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