A Midsummer Night Dream

Shakespeare Illustrator: . A Midsummer Night's Dream, Indialog Publisher 2008 ISBN: 9788184430011

New Hardcover . A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's strangest, quirkiest, and most delightful creations, and demonstrates both the extent of his learning and the expansiveness of his imagination. It is one of the most popular of his plays that marks a departure from his other works and of English Renaissance theatre. Though most of the conflict in the Play stems from the troubles of romance, it is not truly a Love story; it treats love as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical, making the audience poke fun at the torments and afflictions of those in love. Shakespeare uses the motif of magic, both to embody the almost Supernatural power of love (symbolized by the love potion) and to create a surreal world. Although the misuse of Magic causes chaos, as when Puck mistakenly applies the love potion to Lysander's eyelids, magic ultimately resolves the play's tensions by restoring love to Balance among the main Athenian characters. As the title suggests, Dreams are an important theme; they are linked to the bizarre, magical mishaps in the forest, culminating in one enchanting yet ambiguous drama. However, the darker side of the play should not be ignored, nor the rapid mobility with which the actors transfer their amorous desires from one person to the other. Printed Pages: 103. .

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Sam Crowl: Shakespeare at the Cineplex: Kenneth Branagh Era [Hardcover] by Crowl, Sam, Ohio University Press 2003-04-30 ISBN: 0821414941
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Light shelf wear on.The Last Decade Of The Twentieth Century proved to be the most fertile in the hundred-year history of Shakespeare on film. Samuel Crowl's study, Shakespeare at the Cineplex, is the first comprehensive critical exploration of the fifteen major Shakespeare films released since More...the surprising success of Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989). The period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, constitutes what Crowl terms the long decade in which British and American film directors turned increasingly to the works of classic authors as material for films. The success of Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing and Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet made Shakespeare a hot property in Hollywood. Shakespeare at the Cineplex provides a full account of the rich variety of the Shakespeare films released in the long decade, from Hollywood-saturated productions like Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet and Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream to more modest, low-budget, experimental offerings like Christine Edzard's As You Like It and Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream. While Crowl credits Branagh for the remarkable renaissance of Shakespeare on screen and places his four films at the heart of the decade's achievement in the genre, he also has high praise for films as diverse as Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night, Julie Taymor's Titus, and Michael Almereyda's Hamlet. Shakespeare at the Cineplex will be welcome reading for the many audiences attracted to Shakespeare by the work of Branagh and his contemporaries as well as for students and scholars of Shakespeare in performance.z2, Sleeve is bent Hardcover

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William Shakespeare: Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream Oxford World's Classics, OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS, Mai 2011 ISBN: 0199535868
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. For this edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks at dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows.

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Various Authors: The Illustrated London News, July 3rd to Dec 25th, 1870, , London Published by The Illustrated London News , 1870
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, 668-page compilation of the Illustrated London News issues, with numerous articles and illustrations of note including illustration of the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting the Russian Cemetery for victims of the Crimea War, the Royal review at Windsor attended by the Queen, a portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Silhouette illustrations of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by Konewka, Opening of the Alexandra Docks by the Queen, the Danish Royal Marriage, the Insurrection in Dalmatia, the Russian Memorial chapel at Sebastopol, the International University Boat Race, the funeral of Lord Palmerston, the fire of Bordeaux Harbour, a Wreck Chart of the British Isles, Queen Victoria's visit to Blackfriars, the opening of the Suez Canal First Edition 41 x 30 cm approx. Hardback , cover slightly rubbed, internally clean and undamaged, book is in good condition , quarter black leather with marble paper and leather corners, gilt titles and panel dividers at spine, all page edges marble paper

[SW: Various Authors, The Illustrated London News, July 3rd to Dec 25th, 1870, 668-page compilation of the Illustrated London News issues, with numerous articles and illustrations of note including illustration of the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting the Russian Cemetery for victims of the Crimea War, the Royal review at Windsor attended by the Queen, a portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Silhouette illustrations of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by Konewka, Opening of the Alexandra Docks by the Queen, the Danish Royal Marriage, the Insurrection in Dalmatia, the Russian Memorial chapel at Sebastopol, the International University Boat Race, the funeral of Lord Palmerston, the fire of Bordeaux Harbour, a Wreck Chart of the British Isles, Queen Victoria's visit to Blackfriars, the opening of the Suez Canal]

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