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  • Its plotlines converge on the unifying theme of love consummated in marriage, its focal point the ducal wedding, later to include the lovers, with the supernatural blessings of the reconciled fairy king and queen. The general theme of appearance vs. reality highlights the alternative reality of the dream, whether conceived as a path to transcendence or as a conduit of the (Freudian) unconscious. The midsummer night’s confusions make concrete the transformative power of imagination, not only in the lover and the lunatic, but also in the poet of the theater. Art, magic, and metamorphosis link the mortal and the fairy worlds. Central to most of these themes are Oberon and Puck, who as “masters of revels” complicate and then unravel the story lines of the fairies (Titania), the lovers, and the mechanicals (Bottom’s “translation”).

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