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.

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

In " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", Shakespeare casually bestowed upon Theseus-a semi-legendary character, dated to the misty time of the Second Millenium BC-the title of " Duke of Athens ", which derives from the Latin conquest the Byzantine Empire in the 13th Century AD ...

" 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.

The story of the Night's Dawn Trilogy is separated over three books: The Reality Dysfunction ( 1996 ), The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), and The Naked God ( 1999 ); but is also supported by " A Second Chance at Eden ", a collection of short stories which provide insight into the history of Hamilton's universe.

In London Below the various familiar names of London all take on a new significance: for example Knightsbridge becomes " Night's Bridge ", a stone bridge whose darkness takes its toll in human life ; The Angel, Islington is an actual angel.

This devil image is emphasized by the narrator's belief that the raven is " from the Night's Plutonian shore ", or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld ( also known as Hades in Greek mythology ).

Songs included Coven's " One Tin Soldier ", Three Dog Night's " Black and White " and Melanie's " Brand New Key ".

Beginning in the early 1980s, however, her chart success began to wane, though, she did continue to have top-20 hits during this period, including " Starting Over " and " He Was There ( When I Needed You )" ( both 1980 ), a cover of the Everly Brothers ' hit " Crying in the Rain " ( 1981 ), " Another Chance ", " You Still Get to Me in My Dreams " ( both 1982 ) and " A Good Night's Love " ( 1983 ).

These were followed by novels, including Otsu Junkichi ( 1912 ), Wakai (" Reconciliation ", 1917 ), and his major work, An ' ya Koro (" A Dark Night's Passing ", 1921 – 1937 ), which was serialized in the radical socialist magazine Kaizō.

* Paul Reiser, " A Good Night's Steele ", season 1

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

* The character of John Isidore, and his " pet hospital ", is taken from Dick's original novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, although that book contained no suggestion that the shop ran a sideline in modifying replicants.

Further international success came in the UK and Europe with their third and fourth albums, Woodface and Together Alone and the compilation album Recurring Dream, which included the hits " Fall at Your Feet ", " Weather with You ", " Distant Sun ", " Locked Out ", " Instinct " and " Not the Girl You Think You Are ".

The single, " Don't Dream It's Over ", was released in December 1986 and reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart and number eight in Australia.

In March 1987, the group were awarded ' Best New Talent ', along with ' Song of the Year ' and ' Best Video ' for " Don't Dream It's Over ", at the inaugural ARIA Music Awards.

The follow-up to " Don't Dream it's Over ", " Something So Strong ", was not as successful as its predecessor but reached the top ten in New Zealand, America and Canada.

In May 1999 Crowded House issued a compilation of unreleased songs, Afterglow, which included the track " Recurring Dream ", recorded when the group were still called The Mullanes and included Craig Hooper on guitar.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

*" Eve ", a b-side from the 1994 Dream Theater single The Silent Man

* " Free ", by Jon Secada from his album Same Dream

Written by Robert Riskin, it is one of the first of the " screwball comedies ", and with its release during the period of the Great Depression, critics considered it an escapist story and a variation of the " American Dream ".

* " Danny's Dream ", composition by Lars Gullin, lyrics by Lars Söderberg

* The cult American rock band the Pixies have an album track on their 1991 album Trompe le Monde named " Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons ", on an album filled with references to space, aliens and other ' out of this world ' subjects.

In " Dream Thieves ", it is revealed that Brueghel killed Mahler and sold off his body during a slow night of business, and replaced him with a new man whom he nicknamed " Mahler " as a mocking tribute.

* " Madrigal Meridian ", a piece of music by Tangerine Dream from their 1978 album Cyclone

In the foundation myth expressed in the medieval Turkish story known as " Osman's Dream ", the young Osman was inspired to conquest by a prescient vision of empire ( according to his dream, the empire is a big tree whose roots spread through three continents and whose branches cover the sky ).

" Technology, Art, and the Cybernetic Body: The Cyborg As Cultural Other in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ", Amerikastudien / AmericanStudies, 44: 3, 1999, pp. 379 – 92.

Appearing in Chrono Cross are " Gale ", " Frozen Flame ", " Viper Manor ", " Far Promise ~ Dream Shore " ( as part of " On the Beach of Dreams ~ Another World ", " The Dream that Time Dreams "), " The Girl who Stole the Stars ", and " Epilogue ~ Dream Shore " ( as part of " Jellyfish Sea ").