Renascence

Volume 74, Issue 1, Winter 2022

Stephen Mead
Pages 23-44

Theater as Vision in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By his transformation and suggestive associations of the Christian and Pagan sources and influences in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare both revivifies the social message of Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians for his own age and creates a transformative theatre that closely aligns the “magic” of theatrical performance with the spiritual tenets of Christian salvation and community.