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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essay by Maurice Hunt

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SOURCE: Hunt, Maurice. “A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night's Dream.Comparative Drama 34, no. 4 (winter 2000-01): 423-53.

In the following essay, Hunt alleges that A Midsummer Night's Dream functions as a cryptic allegory that criticizes Elizabeth I and the problem of securing a successor to her throne.

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