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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Leoff, Eve
Affiliation: Department Of English, Hofstra University

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 4

Act 4: Scene 1

We now return to the situation we left at the end of Act 3, Scene 1,
where Titania is madly in love with the transformed Bottom. This scene opens
with the entrance of Titania, Bottom, and the attendant fairies. Oberon is
behind them. Titania is speaking lovingly to Bottom. She wants him to sit down
so she can stroke his cheeks, crown him with musk-roses, and kiss his "fair
large ears." Bottom, completely at home in his new ...

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