 | Carte electronică – A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Data publicării: | 1992 | |
| Categoria: | Piese de teatru, scenarii | |
| Nr Pag: | 72 | |
| Format: | PDF, EPUB, MOBI | |
| Editura: | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | |
| Limba: | Romana | |
| ISBN: | 9781853260308 | |
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| Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’, jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania. Recent stage-productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream have emphasised the enchanting, spectacular, ambiguous and erotically joyous aspects of this magical drama which culminates in a multiple celebration of marriage. A Midsummer Night’s Dream de William Shakespeare descarcă cartea. Bottom arrives and announces that their play has been chosen by Theseus for performance that night. Act 5, scene 1 Theseus dismisses as imaginary the lovers’ account of their night’s experience, and then chooses “Pyramus and Thisbe” for the night’s entertainment. The play is so ridiculous and the performance so bad that the courtly Lysander A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia. Lysander’s relationship with Hermia invokes the theme of love’s difficulty: he cannot marry her openly because Egeus, her father, wishes her to wed Demetrius; when Lysander and Hermia run away into the forest, Lysander becomes the victim of misapplied magic and wakes up in love with Helena. ⌜ Scene 1 ⌝ Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, ⌜and Philostrate,⌝ with others. THESEUS Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in Another moon. But, O, methinks how slow This old moon ⌜ wanes! ⌝ She lingers my desires 5 Like to a stepdame or a dowager Long withering out a young man’s revenue. HIPPOLYTA A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of young lovers and fairies. Find out more with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14. William Shakespeare. First performed around 1596, Shakespeare’s comic fantasy of four lovers who find themselves bewitched by fairies is a sly reckoning with love, jealousy and marriage. For centuries it’s been one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays. Read A Midsummer Night’s Dream here, with side-by-side No Fear translations into modern — Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human On any given night, audiences somewhere in the world are soaking up the supernatural delights of A Midsummer Night’s Drea m. It is Shakespeare’s most beloved and produced work. And why not? A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary. Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen. In the end, Puck reverses the magic, and the two couples reconcile and marry. With the Shakescleare modern English translation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream, you can understand with ease how Shakespeare’s twisted comic plot untangles, and better grasp the play’s famous lines, including “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” and “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Act 1, Scene 1 OBERON. [Squeezing flower juice into DEMETRIUS ’s eyes] Flower of this purple dye, 110 Hit with Cupid’s archery, Sink in apple of his eye. When his love he doth espy, Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky. 115 When thou wakest, if she be by, Beg of her for remedy. Monsieur Cobweb, good monsieur, get you your weapons in 10 your hand and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle. And, good monsieur, bring me the honey bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the action, monsieur. And good monsieur, have a care the honey bag break not. A Midsummer Night’s Dream de William Shakespeare descarcă cartea pdf, epub, mobi. “Mendelssohn’s music to Midsummernight’s Dream, written in his eighteenth year, still remains the exemplar for all fairy music. The lovely nocturne, as arranged by Moszkowski, makes a beautiful piano number, retaining all the charm of the original. Grade 5.” Purchase Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri ( / aɪ.oʊˈlænθiː /) is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. Scene 1 Oberon and Titania argue over an Indian boy. Oberon, enlisting the help of Puck, decides to use a magical juice which causes a person to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking up. Scene 2 Oberon sees Demetrius and Helena in the forest, and decides to make Demetrius fall in love. The four main plots of A Midsummer Night’s Dream are as follows: The Wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta This is the simplest of the four plots and would not constitute a story on its own. The dukeA Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of young lovers and fairies. Act I As Duke Theseus prepares for his marriage to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, he is interrupted by a courtier, Egeus. Egeus asks for the Duke to intervene in a dispute. His daughter, Hermia, will not agree to marry Demetrius (whom Egeus has chosen for her) because she loves a gentleman named Lysander. | ||