ISSUE 008: Power, Folklore & Patriarchy in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Contents 

Introduction

Analytical Commentary 

• Ill Met By Moonlight

     Mischief, magic and happily ever after in AMND

Misconception Series 

• In Shady Cloister Mewed

     A Misogynist's Night's Dream

Contextual Notes 

• The Faerie King

     The role of folklore in Shakespearean comedy

• The Fate of Ophelia

Elizabethan beliefs about female emotion

Pedagogy 

• It's Complicated

Making AMND accessible to KS3

First published January 2026. Re-published here 19th October 2026.

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