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A Midnight Fantasy

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Leaving a Boston theatre after Romeo and Juliet, an unnamed narrator crosses the Common on a quiet June night. Familiar streets look strange in the gaslight, and his thoughts turn to unhappy marriages and the possibility of different pairings. That reflection becomes a literary fantasy in which Shakespeare's characters meet across the boundaries of their plays.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich gives the imagined encounter a comic, conversational form. Hamlet's grief at Elsinore supplies one thread, while Mercutio brings him to a masked gathering in the Capulet house. There he meets Juliet, whose lively conversation answers his melancholy. The short story draws its interest from this unlikely meeting and from a theatre lover's wish to alter the emotional direction of a familiar tragedy.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor. He edited The Atlantic Monthly for many years and published writers such as Charles W. Chesnutt there. His semi-autobiographical book "The Story of a Bad Boy" gave rise to the bad boy's book subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature.

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Pages
17
Language
English
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