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Costume Design presentation for a midsummer night's dream One of the noteworthy aspects of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the use of fairies. In Elizabethan times and even the Middle Ages, we know that fairies were in fact depicted as ugly, human-sized creatures who were feared. Housewives would leave treats out at night to entice fairies to help with the chores; a negligent housewife might awaken to find her kitchen wrecked or her body black and blue from pinching( a favourite of the fairies). Fairies would lead travellers into bogs and ditches on country roads and punish immoral behaviour by killing off livestock. Worst of all, fairies would replace healthy newborn babies with deformed or diseased "changelings." Shakespeare, however, was the first person to portray fairies as graceful and caring (though admittedly mischievous). Eighteenth-century audiences saw a number of musical adaptations of the play that used little of Shakespeare's original text. An...

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