SOURCE: Wall, Wendy. “Why Does Puck Sweep?: Fairylore, Merry Wives, and Social Struggle.” Shakespeare Quarterly 52, no. 1 (spring 2001): 67-106.
In the following excerpt, Wall studies the relationship between the play's treatment of fairylore and Elizabethan conceptions of social order.
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