Deja Vu: Repeating the Midsummer Night's Dreaming

Here's the final version of the paper I sent in for my grad school application. I made a few subtle, yet important changes in my wording in order to (hopefully!) make my thesis more clear. While I am not sure I specifically address this question by the Bourgeois Burglar (though I do in the comments below his), I think that it is a stronger paper overall. And I am still very interested to hear everyone's thoughts. It's a tendentious thesis, I think, but an interesting one (in, I think, a positive way), if I do say so myself. See more below the fold.