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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play of the same name. It is directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle , produced by Warner Bros. , and stars James Cagney , Mickey Rooney , Olivia de Havilland (in her film debut), Jean Muir , Joe E. Brown , Dick Powell , Ross Alexander , Anita Louise , Victor Jory and Ian Hunter .
PUCK. 'st aright;am that merry wanderer o. the night.jest to Oberon and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal: And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab, And when she drinks, against her lips I bob And on her wither'd dewlap p.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary. Athens’ Duke, Theseus, is busy in his marriage’s preparation with Hippolyta who is the queen of the Amazons. This marriage celebration goes on with a four-day festival of ceremony and entertainment. He commands Philostrate, his master of festivities, to search for appropriate delights for the ceremony.
Set beneath heritage trees within a picture-perfect Kew Gardens, this is A Midsummer Night’s Dream in uniquely botanical surroundings – as twilight falls, the stage is set for Shakespeare Under the Stars. This beguiling comedy of enchantment and transformation is brought to life within a dream-like woodland filled with feuding fairies ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was premiered on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival , conducted by the composer and with set and costume designs by Carl Toms . [1]
Lord, what fools these mortals be! Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is reawakened in this breathless production brimming with magic, mirth and mayhem. Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s contagious. Besides the royal wedding, which is just days away, there are young lovers dreaming of enchanted futures together.
Though A Midsummer Night’s Dream divides its action between several groups of characters, Puck is the closest thing the play has to a protagonist. His enchanting, mischievous spirit pervades the atmosphere, and his antics are responsible for many of the complications that propel the other main plots: he mistakes the young Athenians, applying the love potion to Lysander instead of Demetrius, thereby causing chaos within the group of young lovers; he also transforms Bottom’s head into that ...
