... the rest of the century," (Griffiths, 65). Hoffman's flamboyant fairies might be the representation of the unconsciousness of the stiff Athenian aristocrats. Michael Taylor, author of, "The Darker purpose of A Midsummer Night's Dream," would say that the behaviour of Hoffman's fairies, and the fairies in general, are anthropomorphisms of human behaviour: "His [Puck] sense of superiority over his human victims is human in its pettiness. 'Lord ... often harmed the complexity of the text because the children did not understand the lines. Some three hundred years later, when the accurate...

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