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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Posted 08-07-2010 at 08:18 AM by Officelover
A Midsummer Night's Dream is truly my favorite of Shakespeare's works. It is non-stop hilarity with wonderful writing, puns, fairies, magic, and overall wit, humor, and cleverness. I always enjoy a production of it. I've seen at least five different stage versions. I own the recent movie, and I've seen two other filmed versions. Honestly, I cannot get tired of seeing a good performance of Midsummer.
I am writing this because only yesterday did I see an extremely good production, at a local theater. For those of you who haven't seen it either because you're afraid to grapple with Shakespeare or because you simply haven't gotten around to it, I highly reccomend it to you.
LINKS: (Only yous can defeat Ganon.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/full.html
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Hmm...
I'm not a huge fan of Midsummer Night's Dream- Generally I prefer the tragedies over the comedies- but among the comedies I like both As you like it and Twelfth Night more.
I do love Oberon and Titania and their argument- but for me the main four characters are all just so... annoying. Demetrius and Lysander are as wimpy and pathetic as each other- and Hermia and Helena are just so spineless and soppy. I would much rather it were written as tragedy and they all ending up killing each other- would seem much more fitting.
Despite this- the rude mechanicals are good- and the performance of Pyramus and Thibse is an absolutely excellent scene.Posted 08-07-2010 at 01:10 PM by Jacques -
Posted 08-07-2010 at 06:58 PM by Officelover -
Posted 08-11-2010 at 09:13 PM by bak2bak