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Act I tells Shakespeare's familiar story of lovers and fairies while Act II presents a strictly classical dance wedding celebration. The ballet dispenses with Shakespeare's play-within-a-play finale. A Midsummer Night's Dream opened The New York City Ballet's first season at the New York State Theater in April, 1964.
The names Titania and Oberon may both sound vaguely classical, but neither is a figure from classical mythology. Survivals of homegrown English paganism were sometimes denounced as witchcraft; but Shakespeare folds his pagan fairies into the more accepted mythology of Greco-Roman literature, associating Titania and Oberon with the legend of Theseus.
Puck is a drug dealer, the magic flower called love-in-idleness is replaced with magic ecstasy, and the King and Queen of Fairies are the host of the rave and the DJ. [citation needed] Were the World Mine (2008) features a modern interpretation of the play put on in a private high school in a small town. [citation needed] [105]
Illustration by Louis Rhead for an edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (1918). Snug is a minor character from William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream . [ 1 ] He is a joiner who comes from Athens who is hired by Peter Quince to play the part of the lion in Pyramus and Thisbe .
The Fairy-Queen (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular". [1] The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. [2]
Francis Flute (right) playing Thisbe in a 1978 Riverside Shakespeare Company production. Francis Flute is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. [1] His occupation is a bellows-mender. He is forced to play the female role of Thisbe in "Pyramus and Thisbe", a play-within-the-play which is performed for Theseus' marriage ...
Tom Snout (background) playing Wall in a Riverside Shakespeare Company production. Tom Snout is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. [1] He is a tinker, and one of the "mechanicals" of Athens, amateur players in Pyramus and Thisbe, a play within the play.
The first quatrain details the love that the poet feels. The first line addresses "the quality of love." [3] Shakespeare also wants his love to be noticed and to the "desired" effect to happen. [7] The use of "sweet love" appears to address a specific person but later seems to address the love that the author feels. [8]