tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363079657513890312.post2636501890075169051..comments2010-04-09T09:58:30.136-07:00Comments on A Year of Shakespeare in NYC: More Midsummer in MidspringLilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12275827598022572159noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363079657513890312.post-36985099873337205312010-04-08T09:13:27.640-07:002010-04-08T09:13:27.640-07:00Love is certainly an enchantment, but the device o...Love is certainly an enchantment, but the device of the magic flower is just another figure for Cupid's arrow, no? It seems this is only one metaphor for the way love works. Hermia, for instance, never wavers in her love, nor Helena. In this play the men are the most inconstant, and Hippolyta, the only woman touched by the magic flower is only permitted by WS to fall for a donkey. Yet Theseus loves her without cease. Though less flashy there is a story here too about love's persistence.Lilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12275827598022572159noreply@blogger.com