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- Mickey RooneyPuck, or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy
- Olivia de HavillandHermia, in Love with Lysander (as Olivia de Haviland)
- Dick PowellLysander, in Love with Hermia
- Hobart CavanaughPhilostrate - Master of Revels to Theseus
- Joe E. BrownFlute, the Bellows-Mender
- Jean MuirHelena, in Love with Demetrius
- Hugh HerbertSnout, the Tinker
- Ian HunterTheseus, Duke of Athens
- Frank McHughQuince, the Carpenter
Grant MitchellEgeus - Father to Hermia- Victor JoryOberon, King of the Fairies
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play ...
- c. 1595–96
- Probably The Theatre, London
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Mar 13, 2024 · Puck and Hermia, as portrayed by Mickey Rooney (left) and Olivia de Havilland, in the film A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935. (more) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1595–96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from the author’s manuscript, in which there are some minor inconsistencies.
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May 14, 1999 · A Midsummer Night's Dream: Directed by Michael Hoffman. With Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci. Lovers' lives are complicated by city law ...
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Though A Midsummer Night’s Dream divides its action between several groups of characters, Puck is the closest thing the play has to a protagonist. His enchanting, mischievous spirit pervades the atmosphere, and his antics are responsible for many of the complications that propel the other main plots: he mistakes the young Athenians, applying ...
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The other plays were Henry V, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra. An interesting note is that a young Isadora Duncan played one of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Loney, I: 3). 1905 On April 4, Henry Irving opened in Otho Stuart’s revival of Hamlet at the Adelphi Theatre, London.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, likely written around 1595-1596, is a delightful comedy that weaves together the intersecting stories of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors, and a mischievous group of fairies. Set in an enchanted forest near Athens, the play explores themes of love, illusion, and the unpredictable ...
