1. A midsummer nights dream
"a bank where the wild thyme blows, .
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, .
Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine, .
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine," (2.2.249-53).
According to Briggs "their power of motion is almost unlimited, "it seems they move continually," (The Anatomy of Puck, 45). This constant movement makes a geographical fairy homeland unlikely since the concept of distance does not exist to a fairy. Fairyland itself can be seen as a metaphor. In many myths the entrance to fairyland can be opened anywhere by performing certain rituals, for example by burning a leaf of a wreath, (Briggs, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature, 53). Fairyland might be a symbolic idea that unites the fairies worldwide and each place in which they reside could be fairyland. The main action in A Midsummer Night's Dream is staged in the forest outside Athens. Because the fairies dwell in these woods, "where fairies are the major manipulators," this could be the fairyland of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the four lovers enter this world (Michael Dervan, 36). .
The supernatural in, "Macbeth," and, "Hamlet," is part of the plotline in the human world. The supernatural entities recount their adventures: "A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munched, and munched, and munched. 'Give me,' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch,' the rump-fed runnion cries" (Macbeth, 1.3.3–5). Or they contemplate their fate: .
"I am thy father's spirit, .
Doomed for a certain time to walk the night .
And for the day confined to fast in fires," (Hamlet, 1.5.10-11).
However, they do not have an isolated plotline They are integrated into the tragedy of respectively Macbeth or Hamlet. The supernatural world in, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," has a separate plotline, that of the quarrel between Titania and Oberon. "[I]t is even possible to stage elements of the Mechanicals and the fairy plots separately [] the Athenian court characters, the fairies and the Mechanicals do maintain remarkably independent existence for much of the action," (Trevor R.
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