Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream
“a treasure trove” (New York TheaterWire)

Photo by Koen Macchielse

Building on work by Stanford professor Patricia Parker, in 2007 the Dark Lady Players showed that this play contains an underlying allegorical layer of meaning, including a parody of the crucifixion and references to the Roman-Jewish war. These completely transform the meaning of the play.

Read the article by George Stevenson in New York Theatre Wire. Read the review in the New Jersey Jewish News and an article in the Clyde Fitch Report. Watch a 2 minute videoclip in which Oberon reveals the true meaning of the ‘Flower.'

For more detail read a White Paper for the actors in the production and John Hudson’s thesis at the Shakespeare Institute.

His article "A Midsummer Night’s Dream; A Religious Allegory" appeared in the Birmingham Journal for Literature and Language.