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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In Our Time
Shakespeare, Nick Stole - A Play About Mixing High and Low
This is a really unusual play for Shakespeare, it's one of the very few where there's no obvious principal source. At the same time, he's creating this fresh new thing from lots of pre-existent materials. The striking thing about that is how diverse they are. It's very much a play about mixing high and low. On the high side, we've got Ovid's metamorphosis, the great classical epic of change and transformation. We've also got chucked into the mix, all sorts of other things, like jazz and style. There's actually a point where Helena says, things base and vile holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.
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