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Romantic – he promises to marry Hermia in secret if she will run away with him. He offers to kill Demetrius for Helena if she wants him to. Lysander - her boyfriend, but he treats her badly when, under a spell, he falls in love with Helena A Midsummer Night's Dream, an American independent film that relocates the story to modern-day Los Angeles. In 1967, John A. Allen theorised that Bottom is a symbol of the animalistic aspect of humanity. He also thought Bottom was redeemed through the maternal tenderness of Titania, which allowed him to understand the love and self-sacrifice of Pyramus and Thisbe. [43] In 1968, Stephen Fender offered his own views on the play. He emphasised the "terrifying power" [43] of the fairies and argued that they control the play's events. They are the most powerful figures featured, not Theseus as often thought. He also emphasised the ethically ambivalent characters of the play. Finally, Fender noted a layer of complexity in the play. Theseus, Hippolyta, and Bottom have contradictory reactions to the events of the night, and each has partly valid reasons for their reactions, implying that the puzzles offered to the play's audience can have no singular answer or meaning. [44]

A 1969 film version was directed by Jean-Christophe Averty. The cast included Jean-Claude Drouot as Oberon, Claude Jade as Helena, Christine Delaroche as Hermia, Marie Versini as Hippolyta, Michel Modo as Flute, Guy Grosso as Quinze. [ citation needed] Presenter: Hello and welcome to The Big Scene. We’re at rehearsals for A Midsummer Night’s Dream . It’s Act 4, scene 1, and fairy magic has been transforming Bottom and just won’t stop. The challenge facing the director today? How can this player be made to look like a right donkey? She’s got options, but it’s a big ask. Can she pull it off on this team’s budget? She’s got great vision this director, but this has got to be convincing for the crowd and still allow for a great performance from the player.

James Halliwell-Phillipps, writing in the 1840s, found that there were many inconsistencies in the play, but considered it the most beautiful poetical drama ever written. [30] Suspicious - when Lysander and Demetrius tell her they love her she thinks it’s a cruel joke. What’s more, she suspects that her best friend, Hermia is in on it.

Independent - she knows her own mind and defies her father. She stands up for herself when Duke Theseus suggests that she marries Demetrius. Kopf, Dan (22 September 2016). "What Is Shakespeare's Most Popular Play?". Priceonomics . Retrieved 11 October 2022. Halsall, Jane (2009). Visual Media for Teens: Creating and Using a Teen-centered Film Collection. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. p.109. ISBN 978-1-59158-544-2.

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Montrose, Louis (2000). "The Imperial Votaress". In Brown, Richard Danson; Johnson, David (eds.). A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism. London: Macmillan Press. pp.60–71. ISBN 978-0-312-23039-5. Machine Dominion • 2: Kingsbrother • 3: Forest of the Sage • 4: The Vital Blade • 5: Night and Day • 6: Treachery • 7: Bound Elsewhere • 8: Serpent's Whispers • 9: Echoes of Truth • 10: Howling Descent • 11: Deceit • 12: What Remains • 13: Specter of Niðavellir Altena • Annand • Arden • Ares • Arion • Arthur • Arvis • Ayra • Azelle • Brigid • Ced • Deirdre • Díthorba • Eldigan • Erinys • Ethlyn • Febail • Fee • Hilda • Ishtar • Jamke • Julia • Julius • Lachesis • Larcei • Lene • Lewyn • Lex • Patty • Quan • Scáthach • Seliph • Shannan • Sigurd • Silvia • Tailtiu • Tine • Travant • Ullr Alfie Anderson - Summer's secret admirer and her enemy since a long time. Alfie has a crush on Summer, but she doesn't notice him. Later to become Summer's boyfriend

Wyver, John (10 June 2019). "A midsummer night's mystery: my search for Peter Brook's Dream". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 July 2022. Brantley, Ben (10 August 2018). "Review: A High School Meltdown Heats Up 'Be More Chill' ". The New York Times . Retrieved 8 April 2021.The next scrumptious story in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series, following Cherry Crush and Marshmallow Skye . Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson. Summer has always dreamed of dancing, and when a place at ballet school comes up, she wants it so badly it hurts. Middle school ends and the holidays begin, but unlike her sisters, Summer has no time for lazy days and sunny beach parties. The audition becomes her obsession, and things start spiralling out of control...The more Summer tries to find perfection, the more lost she becomes. Will she realise -- with the help of the boy who wants more than friendship -- that dreams come in all shapes and sizes? Third must-have title in this gorgeous series from one of the UK's best-loved girls' authors, Cathy Cassidy. Each sister has a different story to tell, which one will be your favourite? Cathy Cassidy was voted Queen of Teen in 2010 -- beating Jacqueline Wilson and Louise Rennison to the throne. Praise for Cathy's books: Touching, tender and unforgettable . ( Guardian ). Cathy Cassidy wrote her first picture book for her little brother when she was eight or nine and has been writing fabulous stories ever since. The Chocolate Box Girls is a sumptuous series starring sassy sisters, super-cool boys and one of Cathy's biggest loves -- chocolate. Cathy lives in Scotland with her family

W. Stanley Moss used the quotation "Ill met by moonlight" as the title of his Ill Met by Moonlight (1950), a non-fiction book about the kidnap of General Kreipe during WWII. [81] The book was adapted into a film with the same name in 1957. [82] The Sacred World • World of Awakening • World of Binding • World of Birthright • World of Blazing • World of Conquest • World of Crests • World of Dawn • World of Holy War • World of Mystery • World of Mystery Renewed • World of Origin • World of Radiance • World of Shadows • World of Thracia • World of Zenith ( Askran Kingdom • Dökkálfheimr • Emblian Empire • Hel • Jötunheimr • Ljósálfheimr • Múspell • Nifl • Niðavellir • Vanaheimr) Leeds Barroll, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), p. 83. The 20th century brought new insights into the play. In 1961, Elizabeth Sewell argued that Shakespeare aligns himself not with the aristocrats of the play, but with Bottom and the artisans. It is their task to produce a wedding entertainment, precisely the purpose of the writer on working in this play. [41] Also in 1961, Frank Kermode wrote on the themes of the play and their literary sources. He counted among them fantasy, blind love, and divine love. He traced these themes to the works of Macrobius, Apuleius, and Giordano Bruno. Bottom also briefly alludes to a passage from the First Epistle to the Corinthians by Paul the Apostle, dealing with divine love. [41] [b] Bernard Cornwell's novel Fools and Mortals (2017) is about the creation and first performance of the play, as seen by the young actor, Richard Shakespeare, brother of the playwright. [86] Musical versions [ edit ]

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In 1975, Ronald F. Miller expresses his view that the play is a study in the epistemology of imagination. He focused on the role of the fairies, who have a mysterious aura of evanescence and ambiguity. [49] Also in 1975, David Bevington offered his own reading of the play. He in part refuted the ideas of Jan Kott concerning the sexuality of Oberon and the fairies. He pointed that Oberon may be bisexual and his desire for the changeling boy may be sexual in nature, as Kott suggested. But there is little textual evidence to support this, as the writer left ambiguous clues concerning the idea of love among the fairies. He concluded that therefore their love life is "unknowable and incomprehensible". [49] According to Bevington, the main theme of the play is the conflict between sexual desire and rational restraint, an essential tension reflected throughout the play. It is the tension between the dark and benevolent sides of love, which are reconciled in the end. [49] Also in 1979, Harold F. Brooks agreed that the main theme of the play, its very heart, is desire and its culmination in marriage. All other subjects are of lesser importance, including that of imagination and that of appearance and reality. [51] In 1980, Florence Falk offered a view of the play based on theories of cultural anthropology. She argued that the play is about traditional rites of passage, which trigger development within the individual and society. Theseus has detached himself from imagination and rules Athens harshly. The lovers flee from the structure of his society to the communitas of the woods. The woods serve here as the communitas, a temporary aggregate for persons whose asocial desires require accommodation to preserve the health of society. This is the rite of passage where the asocial can be contained. Falk identified this communitas with the woods, with the unconscious, with the dream space. She argued that the lovers experience release into self-knowledge and then return to the renewed Athens. This is " societas", the resolution of the dialectic between the dualism of communitas and structure. [51] Twyning, John (2012). Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture. New York: Springer Nature. ISBN 978-1-137-28470-9. Jodie finds out about Summer's extreme dieting; Summer believes her reaction to be fuelled by jealousy and stops talking to her. However she grows closer to Alfie, who has also become aware of her not eating properly. Summer's weight loss is noticed by Skye and Miss Elise, who tells her she is pushing herself too hard. Despite this, Summer performs well at her audition and is told by Sylvie Rochelle to expect good news when getting a reply.