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Clayton, Thomas. “‘Fie What a Question's That If Thou Wert Near a Lewd Interpreter’: The Wall Scene in A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Shakespeare Studies 7 (1974): 101-13.
Argues that in the Wall scene (V.i. 154-204), “Pyramus” and “Thisbe” hold their secret conversation not between Wall's upheld fingers, as is traditionally staged, but between his legs.
Franke, Wolfgang. “The Logic of Double Entendre in A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Philological Quarterly 58, No. 3 (Summer 1979):...
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