Heidi White

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292 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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

And it's funny, right?

But again, there's that like kind of

there's this underlying kind of sobriety and darkness in this play as it looks at power.

And it all ends up harmonized, right?

It all ends up, everybody's sorted out rightly with the right person and Bottom gets his head back.

And, you know, the appearance and reality is kind of united again.

But we, it's,

The male characters, to me, are actually the most interesting ones in this play, which isn't always true in Shakespeare, because the girls are strong-willed and they're going to get what they want, even Titania.

But there's this kind of strange...

extreme to the male characters they're either like utterly passive and unable to achieve anything with the lovers right um or they have this like this this coercion and this power over the women in the in the story um and i'm not trying to impose some kind of feminist like interpretation it's just there in the play and that's interesting to me especially for its time

Well, and Romeo and Juliet is just one missed message away from a comedy, right?

It's just one plague village away from being a beautiful, resolved comedy.

Yeah, fairies are, if we're playing D&D, right?

Chaotic neutral.

Yeah, that's right.

And sometimes lawful neutral, but neutral, right?

And in this play, even when they wish us well, it's kind of an arbitrary benevolence, not like an angelic one.

It's not a Christian benevolence.

Mm hmm.

Yeah, and I think it's interesting because you can also kind of, to even argue against myself, right, and the points that I just made about the power and coercion within the play, you can make a case that they are the agents of order

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