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A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Approaching Shakespeare
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This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire.

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Series
Approaching Shakespeare
People
Emma Smith
Keywords
criticism
play
literature
theatre
language
shakespeare
english
#greatwriters
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 05/11/2012
Duration: 00:40:37

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