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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: 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 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).
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 ...
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.
The album includes all of Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream except his score's No. 6, a melodrama. The vocal numbers are sung in Shakespeare's English rather than in the German translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Dorothea Tieck that Mendelssohn set, necessitating a few small deviations from Mendelssohn's original score.
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 ...
The title is an adaption from a character and a scene in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. At the end of Act IV, Scene 1, the awaking weaver Bottom says: "I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was—there is no man can tell what. Methought I ...