Fathers play relatively minor—but significant—roles in The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Compare and contrast the fathers in these two plays. In what ways are they similar? How are they different? Consider such topics as their relationship with their children, their role and status in society, their perceived power and their actual power, and their effect on the progress of the play.
Be sure that you establish an overall thesis regarding the portrait of fathers in these plays and that you develop and support your position with reference, either directly or indirectly, to the texts of the plays. This is not a research paper; confine your efforts to the plays themselves.