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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Our Time

CHAPTER

Shakespeare's Attitude Through Working Classes

I think one of the things that's so fascinating about bottom and particularly if you look at him in comparison with characters in Auvid who undergo metamorphosis. In Auvid when people are changed there's usually an extraordinary element of pathos around this. Whereas bottom just remains wonderfully consistent. I mean he is... he you know has an ass's head. He wants his bottle of hay instead of his normal food. He want his hay. Even artisan working classes. Shakespeare's attitude through working classes even educated. Not educated. But I don't know. It's quite a bit dismissive. You don't feel the same. I'm just interested in just on personal reading.

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