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Opera adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
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."
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
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Bottom's transformation
“Come sit down every mother's child, and rehearse your parts
”
Video: EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica, Inc.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lovers' quarrel
“O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!”
Video: EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica, Inc.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Puck's final speech
“If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended
”
Video: EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica, Inc.
Know about the use of innuendo and double entendre in British comedy
Learn about the use of innuendo and double entendre in British comedy.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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”
Puck putting “a girdle round about the earth” to gather the love-in-idleness flower...
Video: Courtesy of the British Film Institute
Hear a teacher explaining what makes A Midsummer Night's Dream his favorite play to teach
Why A Midsummer Night's Dream is this teacher's favourite Shakespeare play...
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Opera adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, an opera adaptation by Benjamin...
© Alastair Muir/Shutterstock.com
A Midsummer Night's Dream premiere, 1935
Premiere of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), directed by Max Reinhardt...
© Masheter Movie Archive/Alamy
Lillian Watson as Tytania
Lillian Watson performing as Tytania alongside fairies in Benjamin Britten's opera...
© Donald Cooper/Alamy
Oberon, played by Rupert Everett
Rupert Everett starring as Oberon in the 1999 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's...
© Handout—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck and Hermia, portrayed by Mickey Rooney (left) and Olivia de Havilland, in the...
© Archive Photos
A Midsummer Night's Dream ceiling painting
A ceiling painting depicting the scene from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's...
© Wien Museum— brandstaetter images/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Oberon and Titania quarrel over the Indian changeling boy
Titania (left), with the child over whom she and Oberon quarrel. Oberon (lower right)...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
“Queen Titania and the Donkey,” mural on canvas by Hans Makart; in the Hermesvilla,...
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York

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John Gielgud reading a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream
English actor John Gielgud reading Oberon's speech, “I know a bank” (A Midsummer...
Felix Mendelssohn: “You Spotted Snakes”
Felix Mendelssohn's setting of the fairies' song, “You Spotted Snakes” (from A...
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