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Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare was writing on the cusp between an ancient folkloric tradition and a new way of looking at the world. In Midsummer Night's Dream characters encounter fairies, which is based on Folkloric traditions that imagines their being some kind of magic in every aspect of nature. The shattering of that idea was the key to the sort of scientific revolution that brought modernity.