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The nice ones are usually the uninteresting ones. Take Hermia and Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, for example. Let's be honest: What does this friendly, unified couple, completely unbroken in their clean heterosexuality, actually do that's worth mentioning? Hermia and Lysander claim to be madly in love with each other, even though their parents have other plans for them. Then, in an insane act of rebellion, they revolt against these plans and run away. But when they get tired and go to bed, they dutifully keep a respectable distance. Boring. Even in Shakespeare's comedy, written around 1595, Hermia and Lysander are powerless to overcome the wild tangle of sex and desire they encounter on their escape through the enchanted forest, and in Edward Clug's choreography Ein ...