Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," shows the use of "play" to simultaneously disguise and transmit essential but unpalatable truths. ... Perhaps the most concrete instance of the use of displacement in A Midsummer Night's Dream comes in the games played between Oberon and Titania. ... In Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream multiple forms of play are used to convey controversial truths about the patriarchal nature of Elizabethan society. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus and Hippolyta face many obstacles, but due to their mature personalities, they are able to confront their problems,resolve them, and let them go. ... Being of the Amazon tribe, a nation of women warriors; Hippolyta's surrender to Theseus in battle and marriage was more significant than the petty trifles of the lovers.When A Midsummer Night's Dream opens,she is no longer the warrior woman she used to be because she's already been conquered by Theseus, who happily reminds her " I wooed thee with my sword and won thy love...

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In Jean Anoulih's Becket and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, there are many controversial issues in their plots that some people may find offending or think is a bad influence. ... Romanticists maybe be offended by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream since all of the love that the characters have in the book for each other may not even be real. ...

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• Grade Level: High School