Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," shows the use of "play" to simultaneously disguise and transmit essential but unpalatable truths. ... (I.ii.22) This question clearly parallels the question about the nature of Theseus himself. ... 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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Puck and Bottom are both very dramatically effective fools in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and we could give a strong argument for either character being the most effective. ... In Act 2 Scene 1, we were introduced to Puck when one of Titania's fairies encountered him and questioned him to conclude that he was "the shrewd and knavish sprite". ...

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