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The wood in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’has been variously interpreted as a pretty and charming place, home to aninnocent troupe of fairies, and a malevolent and threatening place, peopled byan altogether more sinister type of spirit.
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The wood in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has been variously interpreted as a pretty and charming place, home to an innocent troupe of fairies, and a malevolent and threatening place, peopled by an altogether more sinister type of spirit. How would your set and costume designs for the scenes set in the wood communicate your interpretations of the fairy world? Elizabethans were extremely conscious of the parallels between human life and the natural world and I believe that the natural world, often perceived to be well-balanced and harmonious is an example to the human world as similarly it can also suffer discord and unrest. Evidently, the woods demonstrate several factors as although a place of mystery, magic and action in which the fairies feel at home this contrasts with the dangerous, wild place in which humans feel threatened and lonely. Thus, I would describe the woods to be a place of great...
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