Heidi White

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The Classical Mind · A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare with Heidi White · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

Like Theseus is forced to kind of cast these sympathetic lovers to the winds because of the unjust dogmatism of a father who has no reason at all to deny their marriage to

Right.

Like they're the lovers in this play are almost interchangeable.

It almost like doesn't matter like who's in love with who.

It's just whoever, you know, this is where we get love is blind.

Like it's literally from this play that quote, like it's it whether Hermia is in love with Lysander or Demetrius, like whatever.

I mean, why does he care?

There's no personality of either of the male protagonists, lovers, that demands that Hermia or Helena fall in love with one or the other.

And so it's this kind of arbitrary, implacable thing.

law that that governs the real world and then you go out into the the green world into the into the forest where everything's up for grabs like it's chaos there's even the rulers are in chaos and they can't like they they don't seem to have any kind of law necessarily that they are

supposed to or obligated to enforce.

And so that that is also disorienting, I think, to the reader, even though you're on the side of the lovers, you're kind of like, well, I mean, just because I believe in love.

Right.

Yeah.

I was going to say, I just think what you're saying is really accurate and that the play really ends with that what we apprehend is much more powerful than what we comprehend, right?

And it is desire that governs human will and human destiny, right?

And there's nothing that, like there's this stark line between Athens and Fairyland that by the end of the play, it remains, but they bring back the legacy of Fairyland into the real world.

Like they get to marry who they want.

So that kind of but there is a bit there is some order to it.

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