Further Reading


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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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