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Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes. Feed him with apricots and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honeybags steal from the humble-bees, And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs. And light them at the fiery glow-worms’ eyes. To have my love to bed, and to arise.
Set beneath heritage trees within a picture-perfect Kew Gardens, this is A Midsummer Night’s Dream in uniquely botanical surroundings – as twilight falls, the stage is set for Shakespeare Under the Stars. This beguiling comedy of enchantment and transformation is brought to life within a dream-like woodland filled with feuding fairies ...
Jul 31, 2015 · In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus's Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not…
It stars Derek Godfrey as Theseus, Barbara Jefford as Hippolyta, Diana Rigg as Helena, Helen Mirren as Hermia, David Warner as Lysander, Ian Holm as Puck, Ian Richardson as King Oberon, Judi Dench as Queen Titania, and Paul Rogers as Bottom, as well as other members of the Royal Shakespeare Company . The film premiered in theatres in Europe in ...
Apr 9, 2024 · About A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare Under the Stars. There's magic afoot in the Park as The Australian Shakespeare Company makes its long awaited return to Sydney in celebration of its 35th anniversary with Glenn Elston’s acclaimed flagship production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bound to dazzle and delight audiences of all ages ...
Portrait of Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe, 1839. Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, Op. 61, for A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Mendelssohn was by then the music director of the King's Academy of the Arts and of the ...
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night. Four nights will quickly dream away the time. And then the moon, like to a silver bow 10 New bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities. HIPPOLYTA. Four days will quickly pass and turn to night. And each night, we will dream away the time.
