... who wakes up to imagine that his whole experience was a "most rare vision."" Meanwhile, Theseus and Hippolyta, hunting in the forest along with Egeus, find the four young lovers asleep on the ground. When they wake up, all has gone according to plan: Hermia and Lysander love each other, as do ... neither a Fairy Queen or a donkey head anywhere to be found. Bottom opens his eyes and, without missing a beat, continues to speak as if the forest rehearsal with the other rustic performers had never stopped: "When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. . . - He soon realizes that none of .....

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... this model, an allegory. However, according to Michael Taylor the fairies do not merely function in the play as an explanatory phenomenon for the human world and natural occurrences, but as characters equal in existence to the lovers. He elucidates this in the light of Titania's speech in act two, scene one in which she recites the effects her fight with Oberon has on the climate: "The function of such an extended treatment of ... and each place in which they reside could be fairyland. The main action in A Midsummer Night's Dream is staged in the forest outside Athens. Because the fairi...

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