Had Shakespeare written nothing else but A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we’d honor him as a poet and imaginative scene-maker of the first order. There’s really nothing like it in the world. In Shakespeare’s play, you’ve got the tried and true Comedy of Errors, meaning a comedy in which people keep mistaking one person for another, often because there’s a …
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