http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/14/financial-times-13798-by-cinephile/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 18:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/14/financial-times-13798-by-cinephile/#comment-169600 Thomas99 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:26:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34313#comment-169600 Theseus is very much “in authority” in MND – he’s the head of state, and when Hermia asks him what will be her fate if she refuses to marry Demetrius (she’s in love with Lysander) his answer is “Either to die the death or to abjure / For ever the society of men.” Pretty authoritarian stuff. And the mechanicals are terrified of getting hanged if their play doesn’t go down well. It’s true that he seems a lot more liberal in Act V, though…

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