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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Our Time

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Elizabethan Theatre History - The Mechanicals

The mechanicals are part of that self-reflexive technique I think. And we find out a lot about you know Elizabethan theatre history. The distribution of parts to actors. Yeah the use of plays, scripts where they just have their own role with cues not the whole play. That's absolutely essential. Many of the directors are more culpable than Shakespeare.

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