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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Moon Goddess in the Amherstons

Right from the very outset, there's that sense of masculine frustration. Titania has to be tamed back into obedient wifehood to Oberon. Queens in this play have to be ruled by kings. When Igeus comes in with his daughter, Hermia, and demands that she abaze him, we get a non-verbal reaction from Hippolyta at that point.

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