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Lately I’ve been thinking about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and now I’ve begun wondering just why Titania reconciles to Oberon at the end, except that the plot requires it. I mean, if I had a fight with my husband, and his response was to cast a spell causing me to fall in love with someone else (never mind someone with an ass’s head), then wake me out of it — I’d be even angrier at him.
A glance at AO3 suggests others have asked this question; and a scholarly article on Shakespearean fanfic mentions a piece that was apparently up on fanfiction.net in 2001 that sounds wonderful and sad, but which no longer seems to be there.
(ok really I kind of want Titania to say “wait, the guy with the ass’s head treated me better than you, I’m out of here.”)
A glance at AO3 suggests others have asked this question; and a scholarly article on Shakespearean fanfic mentions a piece that was apparently up on fanfiction.net in 2001 that sounds wonderful and sad, but which no longer seems to be there.
(ok really I kind of want Titania to say “wait, the guy with the ass’s head treated me better than you, I’m out of here.”)
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Date: 2017-10-24 01:57 am (UTC)From:https://web.archive.org/web/20021021170950/http://www.angelfire.com:80/realm/arkaidy/autumn.html
Working links to all the parts:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021014101549/http://www.angelfire.com:80/realm/arkaidy/trilogy.html
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Date: 2017-10-24 10:40 am (UTC)From:ETA --
Well that was rather satisfying, or at least as satisfying as it thematically could be (poor old Nick Bottom). I’m still unsure how I feel about the name “Talia Bertram,” but then the story follows the convention of the original play in making the setting Not Really Very Greek.