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"The Faerie Queene" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" seem to freely blend classical myth and English folklore. How much "fantasy" writing from the time drew on antiquity, and would lay audiences understand these characters rubbing elbows with their faeries?

by /u/bandswithgoats in /r/AskHistorians

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