Spirits in other Shakespeare plays — notably Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream — exist in ambiguous forms, occasionally even calling into question their own presence.

* The Feast of Love ( 2000 ) ( Pantheon Books ), a reimagined Midsummer Night's Dream, a story told through the eyes of several different people.

Flockhart played the role of Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a 1999 film version of Shakespeare's play.

The goddess is also referenced indirectly in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Illustrations to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Via the French Alberon, the same name has entered English as Oberon – king of elves and fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( see below ).

", and in his A Midsummer Night's Dream, his elves are almost as small as insects.

Shakespeare had several of his male characters address female characters as goddesses, including Demetrius to Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (" O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!

( The name of his TV role alludes to Peter Quince, a Shakespeare character who leads a company of bad actors in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In 1692, he composed The Fairy-Queen ( an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ), the score of which ( his longest for theatre ) was rediscovered in 1901 and published by the Purcell Society.

In 1815 he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in London and exhibited his first work in oil, Hermia and Helena, a subject from A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with a portrait miniature, " J. Keats, Esq ", in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819.

The poem also contains allusions to the Book of Revelation in its description of New Jerusalem and to the paradise of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Mitchell played the male characters: Nick Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Launcelot Gobbo in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, among others.

* Puck ( A Midsummer Night's Dream ), a Shakespeare character

Many elements of the screwball genre can be traced back to such stage plays as Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Theseus is a prominent character as the Duke of Athens in William Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Category: Characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Filomena narrates this tale, which many see as revealing Boccaccio's opinion of what makes a good or bad storyteller, just as portions of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream contain Shakespeare's opinion of what makes a good or bad actor.

* The " Wedding March " from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for the Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, used as a recessional.

* Floresta Amazonica ( A Midsummer Night's Dream ) ( 1992, Teatro Joao Caetano )

The following year, Hearst's film adaption of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1935 ) failed at the box office and the studio's net loss increased.

This includes the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and his trip to Fingal's Cave.

This includes the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and his trip to Fingal's Cave.

* Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in London.

* William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed and his play The Merchant of Venice is published.

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Watt also notes that some of these elements appear in many of his works, such as Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream, and had a deep impact on Shakespeare ’ s writing.

Cinemagoers considered the film too " arty ", staying away as they had from Warner's A Midsummer Night Dream a year before: leading to Hollywood abandoning the Bard for over a decade.

The landing at Sandwich on 17 June 1040, " seven days before Midsummer ", was a peaceful one but he brought a fleet of 62 warships.

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

Vince Cardinale as Puck from the Carmel Shakespeare Festival production of " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", Sept., 2000

" The Tempest " is a companion piece to " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", from the third collection, Dream Country.

" The Tempest " is more reflective than " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", and features less of the original play, though it echoes it cleverly in several ways and sequences.

The Sandman # 19, " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", won the World Fantasy Award in 1991 for Best Short Fiction.

*" Ill-met by moonlight ", Deirdre's response to her rescue in Nine Princes in Amber ( chapter 4 ): " Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania ", said by Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

At Midsummer, the Manx people offer bundles of reeds, meadow grasses and yellow flowers to Manannán in a ritual " paying of the rent ", accompanied with prayers for his aid and protection in and fishing.

On 20 February 1827, he conducted the first performance of the 18-year old Felix Mendelssohn's Overture " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", Op.

In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed " historical invention ", " historical fiction ", and similar names and is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; in mythography it has been termed " mythopoesis " or mythopoeia, " fictional speculation ", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R.

* February 9 – CBS presents the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", starring Diana Rigg, David Warner, and Helen Mirren.

In the summer of 1991 at Open Air Regents Park she played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Adriana in The Boys from Syracuse ( then toured as Adriana ; " hen the gleefully statuesque, not-so-pure Gold ripped into the splendid trio of " Sing for your Supper ", we would have believed anything ").

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the " Midsummer Classic ", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fans for starting fielders, managers for pitchers, managers and players select reserves.

They are part of what has become called " Gutniska Lekar ", and are performed preferably on the Midsummer ’ s Eve celebration on the island, but also throughout the summer months.

" Midsummer Night Symphonies ", Southern California Federal Music Project, WPA, ca.

The club motto is " Weaving Spiders Come Not Here ", a line taken from Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The project code name was " Midsummer ", an arbitrary reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream ; and the two main chips were named Oberon and Puck, references to characters in that play.