A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Quick Facts

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Opera adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream premiere, 1935

Lillian Watson as Tytania

Oberon, played by Rupert Everett

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream ceiling painting

Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian changeling boy

“Queen Titania and the Donkey,” mural on canvas by Hans Makart; in the Hermesvilla, Vienna, Aus.

A male actor in a yellow jumpsuit stands in front of a small group wearing donkey ears; another actor kneels, clapping his hands. Text on screen reads, "Bottom's transformation: A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Two male actors cling to a female actor on stage. Text on screen reads, "Lovers' quarrel: A Midsummer Night's Dream"

An actor in a spritely costume sits in a cloth swing against a dark background. Text on screen reads, "A Midsummer Night's Dream: Puck's Final Monologue."

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Travel with Puck as he gathers the special flower 'love-in-idleness' in a 1909 film adaption of Shakespeare's play “A Midsummer Night's Dream”

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