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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In Our Time
I Am a King and Everybody Believes You
It's a play in many ways all about the willing suspension of disbelief. The language can work on our imaginations to make us believe that. I think bottom who wants to play all the parts can be anything. Can be anything. And he does have the most lines in the play. He does put a stop to it. There's a wonderful moment actually in those scenes where Oberon and Puck are the sort of on stage audience and Oberon says, I am invisible. But there's another important thing. If he tells us in words that he's invisible, the language can working on our imagination to make us believing that. That was precisely one of the things that the authorities
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