Midsummer Nights Dream. French (French Edition)

It is believed to have been written between and It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta.

These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of 6 amateur actors, who are manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. The Tempest, Bilingual edition in English with line numbers and in French translation.

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Shakespeare's Works in French Translation. Comme il vous plaira. Othello ou le Maure de Venise. Les joyeuses bourgeoises de Windsor. Hamlet, Bilingual Edition English with line number and French translation. Antoine et Cleopatre, Antony and Cleopatra in French.

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Beaucoup de bruit pour rien. Henry V in French. Shakespeare's Comedies, Bilingual edition all 12 plays in English with line numbers and in French translation. Their great quarrel scene is wonderfully played, with Gillian Kearney's vixenish Hermia doubling the wounded spite of Tilly Blackwood's muddied Helena and hurling Will Keen's scornful Lysander to the ground.

But it is Dawn French's Bottom people will come to see and she strikes me as no more than mildly funny.

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The main joke is that she is translated not merely into an ass but one with a furry male appendage. It gives her the chance to find unsuspected double entendres but robs her transition back to human form of its magic.

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The point is that Bottom has been entangled in a dream, not that a woman has found herself sporting an ass's member. For me the production misses the play's transfigurative strangeness.

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It is typical that Theseus's great speech on imagination is upstaged by the rearrangement of the furniture in his oddly restored house. Academic Skip to main content. Choose your country or region Close. Free articles and resources.

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One of the very few of Shakespeare's plays which do not draw on narrative sources. New to this Edition: Includes an introduction that looks at dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows. Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare.

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