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38.
Mustardseed
Though Bottom's
attendant fairies obviously enjoy playing out his fantasy of
their 'cuteness', note their vampish red stockings.
Theatre audiences
would easily have been reminded of the ongoing scandals,
publicized since the 1980s in all major newspapers, about
schoolgirls working as part time prostitutes to pay for
designer label shopping habits. At this point in the action,
the School version seems to anticipate the Bar version
(Bar 38.
Pampered Bottom).
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