Fairies in folkloristic tradition and within A Midsummer Night's Dream exist in a wide variety. In the course of this paper I hope to demonstrate the variety of fairies and how they appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream at first appear to be homogenous, and critics often see them this way. ... For this reason I will discuss certain magical characters of A Midsummer Night's Dream in separate chapters. ... Indeed, Shakespeare's text suggests that the magical creatures of A Midsummer Night's Dream could be explained as physica...

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While "Dream" (my adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") was poorly staged, shabbily designed, and narratively messy, the production achieved something I have yet to achieve again. "Dream" brought in an audience of people in my age group, who rarely, if ever, had attended theatre, and exposed the joy of Shakespeare in performance to a demographic of audience members that, for the most part, had no previous interest in attending a Shakespearean performance. ... Each performance was sold out, with the majority of tickets being bought by members of my age group, and by closing night appr...

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