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** The BBC 2016 version even adds another side to the love dodecahedron, with briefly Demetrius falling for Lystander.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Look at Act I Scene II in the 1935 film. Starveling, aren't we [[Disney/SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs happy]] to see you!
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Look at Act I Scene II in the 1935 film. Starveling, aren't we [[Disney/SnowWhiteandtheSeven happy]] to see you!
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Look at Act I Scene II in the 1935 film. Starveling, aren't we [[Disney/SnowWhiteandtheSeven [[Disney/SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs happy]] to see you!
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Look at Act I Scene II in the 1935 film. Starveling, aren't we [[Disney/SnowWhiteandtheSeven happy]] to see you!
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** In medieval times, a man who took a woman's virginity was expected to marry her. Notably this happened to Shakespeare himself, who got married six months before his wife gave birth. Hence, Demetrius returning to Helena, despite being under a brainwashing potion and unable to consent, would've been seen as the properly moral ending.
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** In medieval Elizabethan times, a man who took a woman's virginity was expected to marry her. Notably this happened to Shakespeare himself, who got married six months before his wife gave birth. Hence, Demetrius returning to Helena, despite being under a brainwashing potion and unable to consent, would've been seen as the properly moral ending.
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* ValuesDissonance: After the potion makes Lysander hate Hermia, he wards off her advances by saying she looks like an "Ethiope." African women were considered horribly ugly at the time in Europe.
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* ValuesDissonance: ValuesDissonance:
** After the potion makes Lysander hate Hermia, he wards off her advances by saying she looks like an "Ethiope." African women were considered horribly ugly at the time inEurope.Europe.
** In medieval times, a man who took a woman's virginity was expected to marry her. Notably this happened to Shakespeare himself, who got married six months before his wife gave birth. Hence, Demetrius returning to Helena, despite being under a brainwashing potion and unable to consent, would've been seen as the properly moral ending.
** After the potion makes Lysander hate Hermia, he wards off her advances by saying she looks like an "Ethiope." African women were considered horribly ugly at the time in
** In medieval times, a man who took a woman's virginity was expected to marry her. Notably this happened to Shakespeare himself, who got married six months before his wife gave birth. Hence, Demetrius returning to Helena, despite being under a brainwashing potion and unable to consent, would've been seen as the properly moral ending.
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* FridgeHorror: Sure, the play is all lovely and funny and such but then you walk out of the theater and you suddenly realize that this whole conflict was about which crazy, sociopathic faerie monarch is going to get that mortal child they kidnapped.
** To be fair, Titania was very close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth, bringing him up for her sake; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
** It's a little unsettling to think that Demetrius goes the rest of his life never realizing that his "love" for Helena is just a fairy charm.
** To be fair, Titania was very close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth, bringing him up for her sake; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
** It's a little unsettling to think that Demetrius goes the rest of his life never realizing that his "love" for Helena is just a fairy charm.
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* FridgeHorror: Sure, the play is all lovely and funny and such but then you walk out of the theater and you suddenly realize that this whole conflict was about which crazy, sociopathic faerie monarch is going to get that mortal child they kidnapped.
** To be fair, Titania was very close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth, bringing him up for her sake; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
**It's a little unsettling to think that Demetrius goes the rest of his life never realizing that his "love" for Helena is just a fairy charm.
** To be fair, Titania was very close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth, bringing him up for her sake; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
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** Helena's jealousy towards Hermia leads her to languish over her rival's beauties in a way that toes the line between envy and desire.
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** Helena's jealousy towards Hermia leads her to languish over her rival's beauties in a way that toes the line between envy and desire. Hermia telling Helena where she and Lysander will meet could easily come across as an invitation, given the romantic language she employs.
--> '''Hermia:''' And in the wood where often you and I upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie, emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet, there my Lysander and myself shall meet.
--> '''Hermia:''' And in the wood where often you and I upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie, emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet, there my Lysander and myself shall meet.
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** In the same production, Titania displays much physical affection to her mostly female entourage. However, the effect is diminished as the servant fairies are crosscast rather than gender flipped.
** Helena's jealousy towards Hermia leads her to languish over her rival's beauties in a way that toes the line between envy and desire.
** Helena's jealousy towards Hermia leads her to languish over her rival's beauties in a way that toes the line between envy and desire.
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** Some productions do hint that Demetrius really loved Helena the entire time, and the potion just reawakened those feelings. This is consistent with Lysander's statement in the first scene that Demetrius was wooing Helena before he inexplicably switched to Hermia.
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** Some productions do hint that Demetrius really loved Helena the entire time, and the potion just reawakened those feelings. This is consistent with Lysander's statement in the first scene that Demetrius was wooing Helena before he inexplicably switched to Hermia. And then other productions imply that Demetrius wooed Helena just long enough to take her virginity and then immediately kicked her to the curb, making this a case of LaserGuidedKarma with a smidgen of RapePortrayedAsRedemption on Demetrius's part if you want to be macabre about it.
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* HoYay: Between Oberon and his 'gentle Puck'.
** In the 2013 Globe production, when Oberon learns that Puck's ensured Titania's fallen in love with the donkey-headed Bottom, he swings across the stage, snatches Puck up and ''kisses him full on the lips.'' It lasts about half a minute.
** In the 2013 Globe production, when Oberon learns that Puck's ensured Titania's fallen in love with the donkey-headed Bottom, he swings across the stage, snatches Puck up and ''kisses him full on the lips.'' It lasts about half a minute.
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*** To be fair, Titania was very close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth, bringing him up for her sake; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
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*** To be fair, Titania was very close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth; childbirth, bringing him up for her sake; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
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*** To be fair, Titania was close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
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*** To be fair, Titania was very close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
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** The last we see of Titania and Oberon, they are going off for a happy ending, apparently having reconciled. This becomes much less sweet when one recalls that they only ended up this way after Oberon had his wife brainwashed into loving (and, implicitly, sleeping with) a human with a donkey's head and taking advantage of this condition to get her to give him a child she was looking after (something she was ''very'' against when in her right mind), only freeing her of the LovePotion because he pitied her and got what he wanted. And while the play does end with Titania asking how she ended up next to the donkey-headed Bottom like that, nothing suggests that Oberon doesn't get away with everything he did to her.
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** The last we see of Titania and Oberon, they are going off for a happy ending, apparently having reconciled. This becomes much less sweet when one recalls that they only ended up this way after Oberon had his wife brainwashed into loving (and, implicitly, sleeping with) a human with a donkey's head and taking advantage of this condition to get her to give him a child she was looking after (something she was ''very'' against when in her right mind), only freeing her of the LovePotion because he pitied her and got what he wanted. And while the play does end with Titania asking how she ended up next to the donkey-headed Bottom like that, nothing suggests that Oberon doesn't get away with everything he did to her.her.
** And of course, if you're familiar with classic mythology, you already know that Theseus and Hyppolyta's wedding won't end well.
** And of course, if you're familiar with classic mythology, you already know that Theseus and Hyppolyta's wedding won't end well.
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*** To be fair, Titania was close friends with the boy's mother and essentially adopted him when her friend died in childbirth; ''Oberon's'' the one who's being all 'I want him ''now!'' '
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** Some productions do hint that Demetrius really loved Helena the entire time, and the potion just reawakened those feelings.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Both Felix Mendelssohn and [[CarminaBurana Carl Orff]] wrote epic soundtracks for the play. Mendelsson`s version taking a romantic tone, while Orff was concentrating on the bizarreness of the turns the plot takes.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Both Felix Mendelssohn and [[CarminaBurana [[Music/CarminaBurana Carl Orff]] wrote epic soundtracks for the play. Mendelsson`s version taking a romantic tone, while Orff was concentrating on the bizarreness of the turns the plot takes.
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* HilarityEnsues: Puck is the embodiment of EpicFail.
** Or is he? One gets the feeling he's just messing around: he ''is'' Oberon's court jester after all.
** Or is he? One gets the feeling he's just messing around: he ''is'' Oberon's court jester after all.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The way the 1999 film adaptation portrays the scene where Theseus overrules Egeus's requests and proclaims that Hermia can marry Lysander if she wants to. Through the entire movie, Hippolyta has been distant from Theseus, strongly implying that she's not as stoked to marry him as he is to marry her. It's also hinted that she feels sympathy to Hermia for being forced to marry someone she doesn't love. Before making the proclamation, Theseus takes Hippolyta aside and confers with her, before giving Hermia the right to choose her own husband. At this point, Hippolyta warms up to Theseus, seeing that he not only would let the lovers be together, but asked for her input on the matter.
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** Some productions do hint that Demetrius really loved Helena the entire time, and the potion just reawakened those feelings.
** The last we see of Titania and Oberon, they are going off for a happy ending, apparently having reconciled. This becomes much less sweet when one recalls that they only ended up this way after Oberon had his wife brainwashed into loving (and, implicitly, sleeping with) a human with a donkey's head and taking advantage of this condition to get her to give him a child she was looking after (something she was ''very'' against when in her right mind), only freeing her of the LovePotion because he pitied her and got what he wanted. And while the play does end with Titania asking how she ended up next to the donkey-headed Bottom like that, nothing suggests that Oberon doesn't get away with everything he did to her.
** The last we see of Titania and Oberon, they are going off for a happy ending, apparently having reconciled. This becomes much less sweet when one recalls that they only ended up this way after Oberon had his wife brainwashed into loving (and, implicitly, sleeping with) a human with a donkey's head and taking advantage of this condition to get her to give him a child she was looking after (something she was ''very'' against when in her right mind), only freeing her of the LovePotion because he pitied her and got what he wanted. And while the play does end with Titania asking how she ended up next to the donkey-headed Bottom like that, nothing suggests that Oberon doesn't get away with everything he did to her.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Played with in the epilogue, which coyly "apologizes" to anyone who didn't like the play. This was more or less formula for the period, and shows again in TheTempest, among other places.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Played with in the epilogue, which coyly "apologizes" to anyone who didn't like the play. This was more or less formula for the period, and shows again in TheTempest, Theatre/TheTempest, among other places.
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* ValuesDissonance: After the potion makes Lysander hate Hermia, he wards off her advances by saying she looks like an "Ethiope." African women were considered horribly ugly at the time in Europe.
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* MST3KMantra: Puck's final soliloquy.
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soliloquy: "If the story offended you, remind yourself it was nothing but a dream."
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Both Felix Mendelssohn and [[Carmina Burana [[CarminaBurana Carl Orff]] wrote epic soundtracks for the play. Mendelsson`s version taking a romantic tone, while Orff was concentrating on the bizarreness of the turns the plot takes.
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* FridgeHorror: Sure, the play is all lovely and funny and such but then you walk out of the theater and you suddenly realize that this whole conflict was about which crazy, sociopathic faerie monarch is going to get that mortal child they kidnapped.
** It's a little unsettling to think that Demetrius goes the rest of his life never realizing that his "love" for Helena is just a fairy charm.
** It's a little unsettling to think that Demetrius goes the rest of his life never realizing that his "love" for Helena is just a fairy charm.
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* SoBadItsGood: ''Pyramus and Thisbe'', when things are taken '''too literally''', the play slowly turns from a tragedy to a comedy. But everybody gets a good laugh at the end.
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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Some productions emphasize Bottom and the other players so much that they overwhelm the main story.
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