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Peter Hall succinctly characterises the essential features of Shakespeare’s portrait of Theseus and his court:
Shakespeare’s play is set in Athens. But this classical device is to distance and romanticise what is, in fact, a very Elizabethan and very English play. … Theseus is no pagan warrior, but a country Duke who practises an essentially English brand of pragmatism when things get difficult.
(Sunday Times, 26 Jan. 1969.)
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Warren, R. (1983). The Court. In: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Text and Performance. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06469-4_3
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