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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Afrikaans Midsomernagdroom: Eitemal (Professor W. J. du P. Erlank) Cape Town: 1974 9780798104340 0798104341 749902101 Sol Plaatje Archive: Dutch Een Midzomernachtdroom: Leendert Alexander Johannes Burgersdijk Antwerp: 1908 746981168 Project Gutenberg: A midsummer night's dream : a comedy in five acts: Willem van Doorn ...
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.
Rufus Wainwright's "Sonnet 43", the sixth track on his album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010), is a musical setting of the sonnet. In 2004 Flemish composer Ludo Claesen set this poem to a setting for chamber music (flute, piano and soprano-solo).
Le songe d'une nuit d'été (A Midsummer Night's Dream) is an opéra-comique in three acts composed by Ambroise Thomas to a French libretto by Joseph-Bernard Rosier and Adolphe de Leuven. Although it shares the French title for Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream , its plot is not based on the play.
In original performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the actor who played Egeus and the actor who played Philostrate were probably one and the same. This can be gathered through discrepancies between the First Folio and earlier quarto versions of the play. In act V, scene 1, for example, the quartos say "Call Philostrate" in several places ...
Robin Starveling as Moonshine (second from right), with thorn-bush and dog, in a 1907 student production. Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596), one of the Rude Mechanicals of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe.
Barbara Estermann discusses William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 in relation to the beginning of the Renaissance. She argues that the speaker of Sonnet 73 is comparing himself to the universe through his transition from "the physical act of aging to his final act of dying, and then to his death". [3]
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]