OVID AND A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.

OVID AND A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. I mentioned the proposition that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not a good play to Nick, and he suggested that Judith Fleming might not be completely serious. I agree. I think she is calling attention to the contrasts in the play. The contradictions, inconsistencies and wildly different characters are at the heart of the play. Tony Tanner makes the same point by quoting Jonathan Bate, who calls the play “a displaced dramatization of Ovid.” Tanner elaborates that metamorphoses and the experience of transformation are everywhere. Marjorie Garber says that “at one time or another every character is a changeling.”