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Barall, Michi
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Spring 2025
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2025
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This piece extrapolates out from the original text of A Midsummer Night's Dream to explore Titania's loss of the child she vowed to protect. It characterizes her in four different centuries, with each century representing a different stage of her development and a different stage of her grief in losing the boy. It does so using costuming and an adapted version of the original text to create a missing scene from the play in which Titania mourns her lost son. The research essay details how Helena and Hermia's journeys throughout the play mirror the journey all young girls take from childhood to adulthood, and how Titania's development over the course of the story is symbolic of this journey as well. Through her exposure to sexuality, she is torn from the matriarchal world of her fairyland and thrown into the patriarchy, which she is manipulated into upholding.
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