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42. Patrick Carnegy, Spectator, 23 April 2005.

43. Stanley Wells, note for A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC program, 1970.

44. Peter Brook, interview with Peter Ansorge, Plays and Players, October 1970.

45. Eric Shorter, Daily Telegraph, 9 July 1986.

46. Michael Coveney, Financial Times, 9 July 1986.

47. Lyn Gardner, City Limits, 17 July 1986.

48. Jim Hiley, Listener, 17 July 1986.

49. Halio, A Midsummer Night's Dream, p. 97.

50. Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 29 March 1999.

51. Aidan McArdle, "Puck (and Philostrate)," in Players of Shakespeare 5, ed. Robert Smallwood (2003), p. 49.

52. McArdle, "Puck (and Philostrate)," p. 51.

53. McArdle, "Puck (and Philostrate)," p. 52.

54. Stubbes, quoted in C. L. Barber's brilliant account of Shakespeare's Festive Comedy (1959), pp. 21-22.

55. James Sully, note for A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC program, 1984.

56. Helen Dawson, Observer, 30 August 1970.

57. Mary Z. Maher, "A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nightmare or Gentle Snooze?," in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays, ed. Dorothea Kehler (1998), p. 364.

58. Michael Boyd, interview with Rex Gibson, Times Education Supplement, 22 March 1999.

59. Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 29 March 1999.