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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In Our Time
The Magic of the Collective Imagination in the Playhouse
I think the play is also thinking a lot about the collective imagination of the playwright and the actors and the audience all working together. Shakespeare comes back to it in Two Noble Pinsmen with Fletcher at the end of his career. He goes back to Athens and we have a strong Hippolytia linking with Amelia, her younger sister, and with the Three Queen's now too. It's something he was interested in. And I think throughout the play, there is this way in which the theatricality, the plays within plays. So when Puck sets up these scenes with Oberon to watch Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius and Helena working out their various foibles,
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