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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Our Time

CHAPTER

Helena, This Is a Poirot

Hippolyta has the deepest access to that profound sense of wonder, which the play as a whole engenders in us. She quite often is doubled, isn't she, with Titania as well? We get a sense of Hippolyta's sympathy for the bottom, the actor,. Her polita also linked into the love relationship between Titania and bottom earlier on in the play. Sometimes you get a moment of her just remembering that or glimpsing that. It could stand for our experience of the play, something strange and admirable, something to be wondered at.

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