... each chapter as a connecting thread. I will work from the general to the specific. I will start with a general analysis of the topic related to Shakespeare's text. Next I will describe and try to explain the particular elements of Haitink, Hall and Bury's adaptation and of Hoffman's film and relate the representation of the film and opera to other productions. By doing so I hope to illustrate that adaptations ... ambivalent creatures: they can be seen as actual beings or as allegories. Whether or not the fairies are allegories or actual beings, either way, they influence the lives of th...

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