Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," shows the use of "play" to simultaneously disguise and transmit essential but unpalatable truths. Through Shakespeare's work, we see that "play" displaces the concrete to the highly abstract, the human to the animal, the ... realistically portrayed Athenian court to the far away concerns of the mythological characters. Perhaps the most concrete instance of the use of displacement in A Midsummer Night's Dream comes in the games played between Oberon and Titania. In the scene, Oberon decides to trick Titania as a punishment for disobeying him. He ......

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