... agency of love personified, pansy-juice and all; and an ambivalence in the status of love" (256). Although ambivalent, it is love, in various forms, that binds the magical world to the mortal world. "TITANIA[] But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon [Hippolyta], Your buskin's mistress and your warrior love, To Theseus must be wedded, and you come To give their bed joy and ... [opt for]. Instead, Hoffman laid his adaptation in turn-of the century Tuscan," (Calhoun, 83). In this scene the preparations for Hippolyta and Theseus' wedding are being made. Its inhabitants perpetuate the aristo...

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