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2. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Pyramus and Thisbe - Wikipedia

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   The theme of forbidden love is also present in the main plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream (albeit in a less tragic and dark representation) in that a girl, Hermia, is not able to marry the man she loves, Lysander, because her father Egeus despises him and wishes for her to marry Demetrius, and meanwhile Hermia and Lysander are confident that ...

4. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn) - Wikipedia

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   A Midsummer Night's Dream was produced on 14 October 1843, also at Potsdam. The producer was Ludwig Tieck. The producer was Ludwig Tieck. This was followed by incidental music for Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (Potsdam, 1 November 1845; published posthumously as Op. 93) and Jean Racine 's Athalie (Berlin, 1 December 1845; Op. 74).

5. Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - Wikipedia

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   In the 1925 silent film called Wood Love, Helena is portrayed by Barbara von Annenkoff. [3]In the 1935 film, Helena is portrayed by Jean Muir. [4]In the 1968 film, Helena is portrayed by Diana Rigg.

6. Hermia - Wikipedia

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   Demetrius awakes and his love for Helena is now rekindled; he joins Lysander in the quest for Helena's hand. With both Demetrius and Lysander pursuing her, Helena becomes angry. Because Lysander's love for Hermia was so great and Demetrius had been wooing her in accordance with her father's wishes, Helena believes that they are cruelly mocking her.

7. Nick Bottom - Wikipedia

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   God hathe prepared for them that love him. But God hathe reveiled them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deepe things of God." Steven Doloff also suggests that Bottom's humorous and foolish performance at the end of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" mimics a passage from the previous chapter of Corinthians:

8. Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - Wikipedia

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   Lysander is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. A handsome young man of Athens, Lysander is in love with Egeus's daughter Hermia. However, Egeus does not approve of Lysander and prefers his daughter to marry a man called Demetrius. Meanwhile, Hermia's friend Helena has fallen in love with Demetrius ...

9. Wedding March (Mendelssohn) - Wikipedia

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   Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches, generally being played on a church pipe organ.