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.. Greene, Robert, James IV (2013) Ein Sommernachtstraum Salzburg 2013 [http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/schauspiel/sommernachtstraum-2013] (2013) RSC productions from 1960 onwards [http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/midSummerNightsDream.html] . navigation
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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on-line editions
Quarto
(1600) Folio (1623)
[http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/MND/index.html] (2013)
Folio
(1623),
University of Virginia
[http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/] (2013)
Promptbooks
of the 17th Century
ed. G. Blakemore-Evans.
[http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/] (2013)
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translations
Modernised
Shakespeare:
Shakespeare in modern English, by Walter Saunders
[http://www.shakespeare2000.com/index.html] (2013)
Ein
Sommernachtstraum.
Deutsche Übersetzung Schlegel/Tieck
[http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/sommer/sommer.htm](2013)
Ein
St. Johannis Nachts Traum.
Deutsche Übersetzung von Chr. M. Wieland
[http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/johannis/johannis.htm] (2013)
Midzomernachtsdroom
Dutch
translation. by Jan
Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/](2013)
French.
François-Victor Hugo: Oeuvres complètes de
William Shakespeare vol.2. Fééries: Le
songe d'une nuit d'été. La
tempête.online at: Bibliothèque
nationale de France, Gallica
&endash; mode image, format PDF
or via: http://agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/William_Shakespeare (2013)
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sources
Apuleius, The XI Books of the Golden Asse
conteigninge the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, trans. W. Adlington 1566 [http://eserver.org/books/apuleius/] (2013)
Bulfinch's
Legends of Charlemagne, Huon de Bordeaux, ch. 21 and 22 (2013)
Chanson
de geste,
Extraits. [http://www.cafe.edu/genres/n-chansg.html] (2013)
Chaucer
Metapage: [http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/]
The Canterbury
Tales:
Robinson's Edition, University of Michigan: A machine
readable version of the text in The Works of Geoffrey
Chaucer, ed. F.N. Robinson, 2nd. ed. (Houghton Mifflin:
Boston: 1957). This text is searchable: for individual words
and phrases; for proximity collocations (up to three items,
40, 80 or 120 characters of each other). [http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/me-idx?type=header&idno=CT]
The
Knights Tale
Huon de Bordeaux, trans. Lord Berners, c. 1545
Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses in Latin (Hugo Magnus) and English (Brookes More), [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0029]
Ovid, Metamorphoses,
in Latin: [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/ovid.met.html] Ovid, Metamorphoses,
transl. into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel
Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
William Congreve [http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/books/metamor/ovid_met_toc.html]
Ovid, Metamorphosis in English, Garth, Dryden, Pope etc.: [http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.html], also
here: analytical
Onomasitcon project [http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/onomasticon-sampler/]
Ovid, Metamorphosen,
Deutsch von J. H. Voss [http://www.projekt.gutenberg.de/ovid/metamor/metamor.htm]
Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Golding, 1575
Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Theseus (Loeb, transl. Perrin)
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans,
trans. Sir Thomas North, 1579
Reginald Scot, The
Discoverie of Witchcraft,
1584 [http://www.levity.com/alchemy/regscot.html]
Edmond Spenser:
The Complete Works [http://www.bartleby.com/153//] or at: Luminarium [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/spensbib.htm]
Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae, T. Cooper,
1573
A Handefull of Pleasant Delites, Clement Robinson and
divers others, 1584
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productions, performances
a) stage history
Current
and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the
UK
[http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (2013)
The
Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (2013)
Shakespeare
at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (2013)
New
Shakespeare Company online exhibition (from 1962 onwards, history, photographs, programmes,
theatre architecture etc.) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/NSC/home.html] (2013)
b) performances, actors
Peter
Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream
1970 (Touchstone
exhibition)
[http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/MND/home.html]
((2013))
A Midsummer
Night's Dream The Royal Shakespeare
Company Director: Adrian Noble Year: 1994. Oberon: Alex
Jennings.[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117043] (2013)
c) reviews of productions
Balanchine, George. (chor.), film version: dir. George
Balanchine (ballet version, Mendelssohn, 1966) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060694] (2013)
Peter Brook, Midsummer
Night's Dream, RSC: 1970 YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg-FiWX4uWI] (2013)
Peter
Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream
1970 (Touchstone
exhibition) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/MND/home.html] (April 2002)
Broadway,
1996 and 1971 [http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?stext=Midsummer&query=show&x=12&y=5]
The Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery: A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
July 1998; set in the mid 60s: [http://www.niagara.com/hopelham/dream/dream.html]
Kavanaugh, Rachel.
London Open Air 1997; 1998.
reviews. [http://www.albemarle-london.com/Archive/ArchiveShow.php?Show_Name=A%20Midsummer%20Nights%20Dream%20%28Open%20Air%29]
On Kavanaugh: [http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/jun/04/rsc.theatre]
Boyd, Michael. RSC Barbican
1999/2000 reviews [http://www.albemarle-london.com/rsc-midsummer.html]
Strachan, Allan. London
Open Air 2000. e reviews [http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/reviews/06-2000/midsummer-nights-dream-open-air_29772.html]
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film versions
Internet
Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare
on Television: a bibliography of
criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
1990 - 2002
Get
Over It. dir. Tommy O'Haver. (USA, 2001) Allison breaks up with
boyfriend Berke, and suddenly his best friend's younger
sister doesn't seem so young anymore... [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0192071] (Dec. 2001)
The
Children's Midsummer Night's
Dream dir. Christine Edzard (UK, 2001) Olivier Stockman: Sands
Films/Squirrel Films [www.sandsfilms.co.uk]
Samuel Crowl,
review of A
Children's Midsummer Night's
Dream Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 19, No. 4, Fall 2001. [http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/issues/fall01/review-crowl.html] (Febr. 2002)
On YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esyannfYsSM]
A Midsummer Night's Cream:
Porn (2000) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291349/]
Midsummer,
dir. James Kerwin (1999) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119669]
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
dir. Michael Hoffman (1999) (with Kevin Kline, Michelle
Pfeiffer etc.) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0140379];
Fox Searchlight pictures official
webpage [http://www.foxsearchlight.com/midfinal/] (May
2001)
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
dir. Adrian Noble (1996) (with Lindsay Duncan, Alex
Jennings) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117043]
Alex Jennings as
Oberon
1960-1990
A Mid-Slumber Night's Dream porn movie. dir. Michael
Cates, (USA 1988)
A
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy,
dir. Woody Allen (1982) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084329]
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
dir. ? (1969) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0251270]
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
dir. Peter Hall (1968) (with Derek Godfrey, Barbara
Jefford, Diana Rigg) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0063297]
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
dir. George Balanchine (ballet version, Mendelssohn,
1966) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060694]
1900 - 1960
Sen
noci svatojanske dir. Howard Sackler, Jiri Trnka (1959) (animation) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0053261]
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
dir. Robert Atkins (UK, 1946) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0038738]
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
dir. Wilhelm Dieterle, Max Reinhardt (1935) (with James
Cagney) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0026714]
Ein
Sommernachtstraum,
dir. Hans Neumann (1924) (mit Hans Albers) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0015352]
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
silent
m., Italian
(1913) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0003142]
Midsummer Night's Dream,
dir. J. Stuart Blackton, Charles Kent (1909) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000966]
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adaptations in literature
article on this site: Werner
Brönnimann: Susan Sontag's Pyramus and
Thisbe
Titles
from A Midsummer Night's Dream [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/mnd.html]
Anon. Bottom the Weaver. (play) 1661.
Betterton, Thomas. The Fairy Queen. (play) 1692. Libretto for Henry Purcell's Fairy Queen
Betts, Jim and Lezley Havard. On A Summer's Night.
(play) 1976.
Colman, George (the elder). A Fairy Tale. (play)
1763.
Colman, George (the elder) and David Garrick. A Midsummer
Night's Dream. (play) 1763.
see: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/458569?uid=3737760&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102742119111
Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Christo, chapter
5 Pyramus
and Thisbe
de Filippo, Eduardo. Il sogno di una notte di mezza
sbornia (1959) film version [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ9emtvFFtI]
Garrick, David. The Fairies. (play) 1755. see: http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=1451
Gray, John and Theatre Passe Muraille. Shakespeare for
Fun and Profit: A Canadian Dream. (play) 1977.
Gryphius, Andreas. Herr
Peter Squenz [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/autoren/gryphius.htm] (May 2002)
Johnson, Charles. Love in a Forest. (play) 1723.
(also As You Like It)
Jonson, Ben. Oberon,
the Fairy Prince [http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/oberon.htm]
Kean, Charles. A Midsummer Night's Dream. (play)
1856.
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales,
ill. by Arthur Rackham [http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html] (May 2002) or: Lamb, Tales,
ill. by Gertrude Hammond (1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]
Lampe, J. F. Pyramus and Thisbe. 1745. (see:
operas)
Leveridge, Richard. The Comick Masque of Pyramus and
Thisbe. (play/opera) 1716. (see: operas)
Nesbit, Edith. Beautiful
Tales from Shakespeare
Pody, David. Lord, What Fools!: A Play for High School
Audiences. (play) 1982.
Rosen, Sheldon. Bottom's Dream. (play) 1972.
Sontag, Susan. Pyramus and Thisbe. article on this
site: Werner
Brönnimann: Susan Sontag's Pyramus and
Thisbe
Wieland, Christoph Martin. Oberon [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/wieland/oberon/oberon01.htm]
adaptations in popular novels and romances: Carroll, Susan.
St Valentine's Day Ball; Chase Comstock, Mary. A
Midsummer's Magic; Dunn, Carola. Rumplestilskin;
Kelly, Carla. Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career; Walsh,
Sheila. Midsummer Masquerade, commented by Osborne,
Laurie, Romancing
the Bard: [http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/]
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adaptations in music
musicals:
Schmidt, Harvey. The
Fantasticks.
lyrics Tom Jones. synopsys.
operas:
Operas (in Italian) [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Aljabiev, Aleksandr (1787-1851) Volchebnaia
notch
Berlioz, Hector. Les
nuits d'été,
Song Cycle, op. 7, words by Théophile Gautier. text:
[https://sites.google.com/site/edwardlein/Home/translations/berlioz-gautier-les-nuits-d-ete] (2013)
Britten, Benjamin. Midsummer
Night's Dream , opera, 1960 [http://www.aria-database.com/cgi-bin/aria-search.pl?composer=Benjamin+Britten&a] (2013)a
Ghisi, Frederico. Piramo e Tisbe. (1955)
Grosheim, Georg Christoph. Titania, oder Liebe durch Zauberei (1792)
Lampe, Friedrich (1703-1751) Ein
Sommernachtstraum. opera, 1745 [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Leveridge, Richard (1670-1758) Pyramus
and Thisbe, opera [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Mendelssohn, Felix. Ein
Sommernachtstraum.
op. 61 (1843) [http://www.rondomagazin.de/fuehrer/mendelssohn/fm02.htm] (May 2002)
Mendelssohn, Felix. Ein
Sommernachtstraum.
op. 61. [http://www.klassik.com/de/magazine/masterpieces/029/] (deutsch, May 2002)
Mendelssohn, Felix. A
Midsummer Night's Dream. ouverture, op. 21; incidental music, 1826. English (Grove
Dictionary) [http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mendelssohn.html] (May 2002)
ouverture,
op. 21; incidental music, 1826. MP3 [http://www.formeleins.com/mend_som.htm] (May
2002)
ballet version as a film, dir. George
Balanchine (1966) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060694]
Mendelssohn, Felix. A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
ballet. chor. David Nixon. (prem. 2000, Columbus) production
notes etc. [http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Midsummer.html] (May
2002)
Orff, Carl. Ein Sommernachtstraum (1939)
Orff, Carl. Ein Sommernachtstraum.
Bühnenmusik (1952)
Purcell, Henry. The
Fairy Queen; [http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/hmv4247.htm]
full musical score:
full score: [ttp://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/Home.html] (May
2002)
Rota, Nino. (1911-1979)
incidental music for Franco Zefirelli's stage production of
Romeo & Juliet (1960) and Much Ado About
Nothing (1965)
Smith, John
Cristopher (1712-1795), The
Fairies [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Suppé, Franz von. Ein Sommernachtstraum.
opera, 1844.
Thomas, Ambroise. Le songe d'une nuit
d'été, opera
Weber, Carl Maria v. Oberon,
or the Elf King's Oath opera in 3 acts; libretto by J.
R. Planché; in English
[http://www.intac.com/~rfrone/operas/libretti/oberon.htm] (May 2002)
Oberon
(in
Dutch) [http://www.gopera.com/cherubino/operas/weber/oberon-s.html]
on Weber's
Oberon [http://www.operaworld.com/special/ober1.shtml] (May
2002)
Wolf, Ernst Wilhelm. Die Zauberirrungen oder die Irrtümer der Zauberei (1785)
songs:
Songs:
see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
ballets:
Mendelssohn, Felix. A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
ballet version as
a film, dir./ chor. George Balanchine (1966) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060694]
Mendelssohn, Felix. A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
ballet. chor. David Nixon. (prem. 2000, Columbus) production
notes etc. [http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Midsummer.html] (May
2002)
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paintings, engravings, illustrations
Shakespeare
illustrated
Olga's Gallery. World
Literature in painting. [http://www.abcgallery.com/liter/shakespeare.html](Jan.
2002)
Baldung, Hans. Pyramis
and Thisbe.
(1530) [http://www.abcgallery.com/B/baldung/baldung11.html]
Blake,
William. Oberon,
Titania and Puck with Fairies (1786) [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-oberon-titania-and-puck-with-fairies-dancing-n02686] (2013)
Dadd, R. "Puck and
the fairies", (pictures from Knight's
Imperial Edition)
at: [http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/02/richard-dadd-fairy-king-byatt] (2013)
Fuseli,
Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli). Titania
and Bottom [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/fuseli-titania-and-bottom-n01228] (2013)
Huskisson, R. "There Sleeps Titania" (pictures from Knight's
Imperial Edition)
at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
Landseer, Sir Edwin. Titania
and Bottom. (1848-51) [http://www.abcgallery.com/L/landseer/landseer25.html]
Poussin, Nicolas. Landscape
with Pyram and Thisbe. [http://www.abcgallery.com/P/poussin/poussin81.html]
Victorian
Fairy Paintings [http://www.artmagick.com/Gallery/Fairy.aspx] (May
2002)
More paintings at: Titles
from A Midsummer Night's Dream [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/mnd.html]
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criticism
Bowen, Julia A. "'Swift
hart' and 'soft heart': Elizabeth I and the Iconography of
Lyly's Gallathea and Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream." SRASP (1997) [http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1997.html]
Leslie, Robert W. "Shakespeare's
Italian Dream: Cinquecento Sources for A Midsummer Night's
Dream." pdf-download on Shaksper webpage: [http://shaksper.net/scholarly-resources/library-of-essays]
Locket, Joseph. "Midsummer
Madness, Dangerous Dreams: Shakespeare's Sources for A
Midsummer Night's Dream": [http://www.io.com/~jlockett/Grist/English/dream-sources.html]
Nutt, Alfred. The
Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare (1900) [http://archive.org/details/fairymythologyof00nuttrich] (2013)
Ritson, Joseph. A
Dissertation on Fairies. (1831) [http://www.netowne.com/strange/fairies/dis-fairies.htm] (May 2003)
Steele, Kenneth
B. "Vowing,
Swearing, and Superpraising of Parts: Petrarch and Pyramus
in the Woods of Athens." 1989. pdf-download on Shaksper webpage: [http://shaksper.net/scholarly-resources/library-of-essays] (2013)
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in the classroom
see also on this
site: Education
- Shakespeare in the classroom
Mids.
N. [http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3362.html] (May 2002)
Cummings, Michael.
Shake Sphere. A Comprehensive Study Guide to the World of
William Shakespeare. Plot Summaries of 41 Plays With
Settings, Sources, Themes, Analysis, and Criticism
Midsummer Night's Dream [http://shakespearestudyguide.com/Midsummer.html] (2013)
Urs
Lauer: More Strange than True - Shakespeare's
Midsummer Night's Dream in the
Classroom
Marx, Steven. Triangulating
Shakespeare:
teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles,
links, suggestions, film reviews [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Comedies/comedies.html]
Ulen, Amy. A
Midsummer Night's Dream study
guide: [http://www.ulen.com/shakespeare/plays/mnd/mnd_guide.html]
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deutsche Webseiten
Andriz, Rod. Ein
Sommernachtstraum. Hintergründe und
Informationen. [http://www.macbeth.de/fo_sommernacht.html]
Gröchel, André. Das kleine Shakespeare-Brevier: Ein
Sommernachtstraum.
Inhalt, Wurzeln,
Quellen. Falls dieser
Link nicht klappt: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/sommer.htm]
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Just for Fun
ultra-short
version,
Book-a-Minute Classics, Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard
and David J. Parker [http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.midsummer.shtml]
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