Background information of Midsummer Nights Dream?

Answer 1

The most recent movie version is that directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christian Bale and Callista Flockhart. Earlier movies include one from 1968 with Judi Dench, Diana Rigg, Ian Holm and Helen Mirren. A 1935 film starring James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, and Olivia de Havilland won a number of Oscars.

Answer 2

Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream is about a pair of lovers who elope through the woods at night, closely followed by two other young people. At the same time there is a group of amateur actors who go there to rehearse a play. They run into some fairies who use a love potion to get people to fall in love with other people, including the most opinionated and vain of the actors who is also changed into a half-human-half-donkey. However, by morning everyone is straightened out and is in love with the right person, and the young people get married and watch the play the amateur actors have been rehearsing (which is so bad it's hilarious).

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A midsummers nights dream is about the life of a World War 2 veteran. When he comes home from Japan, he gains a terrible crack addiction. While his life is spiraling downwards from drugs, he gets caught up into the prositution business. He begins to sell his body to anyone that can give money so he can feed his addiction to other drugs such a heroin, meth, and angel dust.

Answer 3

Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream is about a pair of lovers who elope through the woods at night, closely followed by two other young people. At the same time there is a group of amateur actors who go there to rehearse a play. They run into some fairies who use a love potion to get people to fall in love with other people, including the most opinionated and vain of the actors who is also changed into a half-human-half-donkey. However, by morning everyone is straightened out and is in love with the right person, and the young people get married and watch the play the amateur actors have been rehearsing (which is so bad it's hilarious).

Answer 4

"Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comedic play by William Shakespeare, written between 1595-1596. The story follows the adventures of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors who become entangled in the fairy realm while in a magical forest. Filled with mistaken identities, love triangles, and mischievous fairies, the play explores themes of love, magic, and the power of imagination.

Answer 5

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play by William Shakespeare, written around 1595.

Answer 6

Was it not because Fairies walk abroad on Midsummer's Night?