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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.
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).
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II scene 1. Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire I do wander everywhere. Swifter than the moonè's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see;
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was premiered on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival, conducted by the composer and with set and costume designs by Carl Toms. [1]
In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in 1595/96, Oberon is the king of all of the fairies and is engaged in a dispute with his wife Titania, the fairy queen. They are arguing over custody of a child whom Oberon wants to raise to be his henchman.
Ein Sommernachtstraum is the German title of Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ein Sommernachtstraum may also refer to: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn), music composed by Felix Mendelssohn for the play, titled Ein Sommernachtstraum in German; Wood Love, a 1925 silent film adaptation, released as Ein Sommernachtstraum in ...
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851) Titania adoring Bottom.Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790. Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.
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]