... 'Give me,' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch,' the rump-fed runnion cries" (Macbeth, 1.3.3–5). Or they contemplate their fate: "I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain time to walk the night And for the day confined to fast in fires," (Hamlet, 1.5.10-11). However, they do not have an ... wood [the magical realm], in which all but the final scene is set" (Michael Kennedy, 23). By dispensing with the first act entirely, the relationship between the fairies and humans is difficult to portray because the audience cannot compare the behaviour of the fairies with the behaviour .....

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