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Stay at Home Shakespeare 6: Emma Whipday on dangerous fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

7 May, 2020

In:  Schools, Series, Stay at Home Shakespeare

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Emma Whipday discusses the dangerous associations of Shakespeare’s fairies – and what happens when the fairies of the forest come inside the palace in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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For more on these ideas, see:

  • Mary Ellen Lamb Taken by the Fairies: Fairy Practices and the Production of Popular Culture in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare Quarterly, 51
  • Robert Stagg Shakespeare’s Bewitching Line Shakespeare Survey 21 2018
  • Wendy Wall Why Does Puck Sweep?: Fairylore, Merry Wives, and Social Struggle Shakespeare Quarterly 52.1 2001

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