Odysseus tells Neoptolemus, "You are going to work out some way of deceiving Philocetetes with a story12" and persuades him to tell this story, here we can see the "play within the play13" where Odysseus has his plot to try and capture Philoctetes. ...
The removal of the mechanicals resulted in a plot line that involved Puck turning herself (the role was cast against the gender norm) into an ass who is sleeping with Titania, the wife of her boss (Oberon). ... Ironically, I was able to manufacture the presumable reaction from Shakespeare's audience to the original text, which was risque in its time, through radically altering it to meet with the expectations of contemporary young adults, for whom the plot as written comes across as extremely tame. ...
