... love (Titania) who had captured a rational soul (changeling) by reducing her love to the lowest physical infatuation for a beast (Bottom). (Walter, 10) This traditional explanation is derived from, "Renaissance psychology [in which husbands were] dominant [] over their wives," and in which men represented higher values and superiority. However, through time the play has always been open for new interpretive ... ; (Lenardon, 111). Together Titania and Oberon symbolise harmony, but when they are in discord the natural order of things is disturbed: "TITANIA But with thy brawls thou has dist...

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