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Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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2006

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Michael Hoffman, dir.

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"Where Is That Worthless Dreamer?" Bottom's Fantastic Redemption In Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frank P. Riga Oct 2006

"Where Is That Worthless Dreamer?" Bottom's Fantastic Redemption In Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frank P. Riga

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

A study of Michael Hoffmann’s reinterpretation of Bottom in his 1999 film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which treats Bottom and his interactions with Faërie seriously rather than farcically and resonates throughout the film in a shifting of focus from the aristocratic court to the dignity of the common man and his worthiness to enter Faërie.