It's Midsummer! The world is crazy! Hermia loves Lysander, Demterius loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, and no one loves Helena! *sudden FAERIE MAGIC* Lysander and Demetrius love Helena! Helena thinks they're mocking her and flees them both, no one loves Hermia! *more Pucking around* All is right...
I forgot how funny this play is! I think parts of it went over my head when we read it in middle school (or I just wasn't that into Shakespeare)--reading it again made me want to revisit his other plays.
Re-re-read is the 1996 film:Lindsay Duncan ... Hippolyta / TitaniaAlex Jennings ... Theseus / Oberon--------Re-read is a listen:blurb - A new season of Theatre Music begins with a rare chance to hear Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mendelssohn's complete incidental music in the contex...
After the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, inspired in part by Ovid’s retelling of the Babylonian story Pyramus and Thisbe, Shakespeare reincorporates Pyramus and Thisbe in a more humorous light in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Again, young lovers defy parental authority but, unlike Paris in Romeo and Ju...
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a light romp through the faery woods. It's a story filled with humor and imagination. It was a lot of fun to read. I loved the play within a play and had a soft spot for the bumbling actors. Pure silliness. My only discomfort came from Helena, that girl needs a major sm...
I had to read this book because of The Iron King.It didn't disappoint though because I find it entertaining. :DLeave it to Puck to make a chaos out of things. Hahaha.
I so very much wanted to give this play a four star rating. But I guess I'll have to settle lower due to the weird nature of the plot. It certainly made me wonder what medications Shakespeare was on when he wrote the stage directions. I mean a man's head turning into a donkey's? The guys and girls ...
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