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Making Amends: The Transformation of Theseus and the Feminization of Marriage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This study of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream asks why Theseus changes his mind about forbidding the marriage of Hermia and Lysander and what this change means for the view of marriage developed in the play and for the experience of art which the play engenders. By emphasizing the love of women for each other, …