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Robin Phillips took as his starting-point Oberon’s vision of the imperial votaress [ii i 148–68] and the play’s other specific associations with Queen Elizabeth I. He placed Elizabeth herself at the centre of the play, interpreting Titania and Hippolyta, played by the same actress (Maggie Smith), as aspects of the Queen’s personality. The whole play became, as it were, a dream of Queen Elizabeth’s. (See Plate 5.)
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© 1983 Roger Warren
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Warren, R. (1983). Robin Phillips’s Production. In: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Text and Performance. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06469-4_9
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