Falstaff, Mistress Quickly and the fairy rulers of A Midsummer Night's Dream helped the author through a traumatic childhood and feature in her memoir No Boys Play Here Sally Bayley was about 12 when she entered the world of A Midsummer Night's Dream in her local library. She was immediately struck by how the terrible rows between Titania and Oberon echoed those in her own household. "There's a lot of yelling in Shak…
