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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Bottom Into Titania

It's not entirely clear what bottom into Titania get up to. Most modern productions suggest that she just weaves sort of flowers in his hair. The Elizabethans were very, very conscious about this nature of private spaces. Bottom also seems to understand more fully than the young lovers that he's had some kind of transcendental experience and a vision.

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