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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 ...
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.
On two occasions, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream (in German Ein Sommernachtstraum). First in 1826, near the start of his career, he wrote a concert overture ( Op. 21).
Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck. Bottom and Puck are the only two characters who converse with and progress the three central stories in the whole ...
Titania (/ t ɪ ˈ t ɑː n i ə /) [1] is a character in William Shakespeare's 1595–1596 play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon. The pair are depicted as powerful natural spirits who together guarantee the fertility or health of the human and natural worlds.
Dragomir Brzak (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 21 February 1851 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 4 March 1905) was a Serbian dramatist, poet, translator and travel writer. Most of his poetry was turned into song. He is also remembered for translating Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream." [1]
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 ...