Premium Content The Light and Dark Sides of the Supernatural
By Mark Parsons - February 15, 2003
As critic Ronald Miller so eloquently declared, "The complex and subtle intellectuality of Shakespeare's comic art was never better illustrated than by A Midsummer Night's Dream and, in particular, by Shakespeare's employment of the fairies in that play" (Miller 486). It may be added that the employment of this type of supernaturalism, in general…
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