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mini-review, as I do for classics:this was my first time reading Shakespeare on my own, and I kind of...saw that as a negative. I like discussing Shakespeare in a classroom setting, and being motivated to mark up the text and otherwise process it fully. I felt like I missed out on stuff here.also, this play felt so short. maybe it's my edition's fault, for being 111 pages. maybe it's how abrupt the ending was (which is very). or how flat the characters were, or how there were a sh*t ton of them....
I’m glad I decided to do a reread of this.. I always thought this play was a lot of fun, and who doesn’t love some Fae trickery and drama?
3 1/2 stars 3 3/4Upped the rating when I realized that I'd given 3 1/2 to King John, Pericles, and The Taming of the ShrewBeen a while since I've visited this review. This play was the first I read in a project to read all the Bard's plays before I kicked the proverbial bucket wherever you're supposed to kick it. I'm probably behind on this goal by now (of reading/reviewing four plays a year). Ah well.There are multitudes of rather innocuous comments inside this spoiler. It can safely be skip
"And with her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him.How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes."i felt that Hermia
My Favorite Play!After reading all Shakespeare plays, I wonder why schools focus so much on the tragedies and not so much on the comedies. We were never assigned a comedy to read in school, but to me, this is by far Shakes' best play, hands down. I'll take this over Hamlet, Macbeth or Romeo.I love the Puck and he has so many great lines in the stories. This work gives me life. I have seen several movie versions of this, but I haven't seen the play in person - bucket list. One of my favorite quot...
One of my favorites and the first play I read aloud to my children years ago, sitting outside in lawn chairs one midsummer week. And now those days come back to me every time I read it again. I especially remember the laughter of my oldest in all the right places. And then there is the well-known C.S. Lewis joke about seeing the play put on by an all-girls school: "It was the first time I saw a female Bottom." In these days of potty humor this still makes me giggle.2017 Update:Part of my Arkange...
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;The best of life is but intoxication:Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunkThe hopes of all men and of every nation;Without their sap, how branchless were the trunkOf life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:But to return,—Get very drunk; and whenYou wake with headache, you shall see what then.~ Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto II, Stanza 179.If we offend, it is with our good will.That you should think, we come not to offend,But with good will. To sh...
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” I became a fan of plays when I read a few of them in my English book. They were very good. I liked them. Ever since I wanted to read more of them and of course when I searched for them, Shakespeare’s name was on top. A while ago I was afraid of reading them because of the classical English. But few days ago, I thought to try them and will use Google as a guide. And now I can’t explain how much happy I’m right now... Even though I faced difficulty
Book Review 4 out of 5 stars to A Midsummer Night's Dream, a comedy written in 1595 by William Shakespeare. What a fun read! I first read this in high school and then again in college as part of a course on Shakespeare. Then I watched a few movie versions. It's full of so much humor and creativity. The plot is essentially the impacts of magic, as some fairy dust causes everyone to fall in love with the first person they see -- once the dust falls on them. Imagine the hilarity that ens
how to flirt, shakespeare style, a midsummer nights dream edition:- elope with your love in a fairy wood- follow your friends into the fairy wood with your ex-fiancé, who you still pine over even though he loves another woman- become entranced by magic flower juice and chase after the wrong girl until you fall over with exhaustion- call your girl an acorn- realise your ex-fiancé is truly the one you love, even though you ditched her once you got to the woods- have a double wedding with your love...
"Ein Sommernachtstraum"is one of the top references as a classic. In the beginning, it is difficult to get there, but once you get used to the style, it is quite an entertaining, beautiful and confused story about the back and forth of the love affair. A must for interested in Shakespear and theater.
Re-reading the play this time, I couldn't stop thinking about The Magic Flute. Like Mozart's opera, Shakespeare's play may have a silly plot composed of fanciful, seemingly arbitrary elements, yet, through the power of absolute artistic mastery, the framework of what might otherwise be nothing but a second-rate masque is transformed, by the unwearied attention of genius--and in Shakespeare's case, sublime poetry--into a work of great resonance, an archetypal myth.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, abridged. DEMETRIUS: I love Hermia!LYSANDER: Shut up, I love her MORE. Anyway, you already hooked up with Helena.DEMETRIUS: Who?HERMIA: I want to marry Lysander but I'm already engaged to Demetrius and he won't leave me alone! Two hot boys are in love with me, WHY IS MY LIFE SO HARD? HELENA: FUCK. YOU. ALL. TITANIA: Hey Oberon, I got a new Indian baby from one of my dead servants. OBERON: I want that kid - hand it over, or I'll punish you with bestiality.PUCK: Holy shi...
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanical's) who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespe...
One of Shakespeare's most popular comic plays though a figment of the imagination an illusion, a delusion in actuality that's the pity... such a delectable world to inhabit. Essentially a love story between two couples, a thin plot device in a mythical Athens which never was . Lysander loves his girlfriend Hermia (they want to marry). However her father Egeus, does not consent, prefers the groom to be more prominent admittedly a common story. Threatening Hermia with death or being forced to beco...
Lovers flee the authority of a father who is contrary to them, a lover who pursues the one he loves and does not love her, accompanied by the one who loves him and does not love. - You follow meThere is nothing very original you will say to me. Still, there is also theatre and magic in the forest, worlds that intermingle in joyful confusion. Artisans from Athens come to rehearse a play for the king's wedding. Fairy and facetious beings, bewitching, a magical flower which lavishes all the energy
“Though she be but little, she is fierce!” A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare’s funniest comedy, honestly. When a couple tries to run away, they get followed by a man in love with them, and then by a woman in love with him. And a fairy fucking around makes it all go to shit. As you do! This play is probably funniest because of its excellent set of characters, including:✔Hermia – is 4’9” and could kick your ass. runs a feminist blog✔Lysander – is so beautiful and so, so useless✔H
This is one of the most hilarious comedies of Shakespeare that I have read, even funnier than A Comedy of Errors . Combining fantasy and reality and setting in Athens at the time of the wedding of the Duke of Athens, Theseus to Hippolyta, the Queen of Amazon, the play revolves around the adventures of the four young Athenian lovers, a group of performers who plan to put on a play for the wedding of the Duke and the Queen, and the meddling acts of fairies, especially those of the Fairy King's th...
It's still as awesome as I remember. Though, unfortunately, causes me some initial irritation with The Iron King.Robbie Goodfellow is a wicked spirit running around having fun and pulling ridiculous pranks. He's not a serious teenage boy who is dramatic and suspenseful or mysterious or sexy.Why do we have to turn everything into sexy these days? Why does every male character have to suddenly fit the romantic male archetype? Why are mythological creatures becoming obsessed with teenage girls?
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/I’m sure there’s some keyboard commando all primed and ready just waiting for a chance to chime in about how “this isn’t Facebook” or “talk about books and don’t post stupid pictures.” To him/her/them I shall quote ol’ Bill himself and say . . . . Fucketh off with thee! Because I have read A Midsummer Night’s Dream and I’ve read it more than once. Originally I read it back in the stone age as a high schooler who opted for additional...