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Tolkien regretted Shakespeare's "disastrous debasement" of "Elves". [T 2] By the early 20th century, an artist like Arthur Rackham could depict Elves as miniature figures, as in this illustration "To make my small elves coats" for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (40 colour plates, 34 line, William Heinemann, London, 1908) Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (colour F/P, 11 line 1899, reworked edition 12 colour plates, 37 line, 1909)
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers.
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.
A Midsummer Night's Dream serves as an exploration of the green world through the fairies' interference in the romantic entanglement of the Athenian lovers. The majority of the play's action takes place in the woods outside of Theseus' Athens, with Shakespeare primarily using Athens to frame the narrative in civilization. [3]
1909 Illustration for Romeo and Juliet by Arthur Rackham. The book contains the following tales: The Tempest (Mary Lamb) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mary Lamb) The Winter's Tale (Mary Lamb) Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb) As You Like It (Mary Lamb) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb) The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb) Cymbeline (Mary Lamb ...
John Barton was the son of Sir Harold Montague and Lady Barton (née Joyce Wale). [2] He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge [2] and while at Cambridge directed and acted in many productions for the Marlowe Society and the ADC.
1619 "False Folio" title page of A Midsummer Night's Dream First official record: Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia (1598); referred to as "Midsummers night dreame." First published: published in November or December 1600 as A Midsommer nights dreame (printed by Richard Bradock for Thomas Fisher). This text was republished in 1619, with a title ...