... evening at Glyndebourne is a social rite, a rare chance to behave like a true English eccentric, ("Smiles of a Summer Night"). Haitink, Hall and Bury's production thus belongs to the upper echelons of the elite opera domain. One might say that the appearance of a play is for the larger part determined by the designer or director's imagination and that therefore artistic or cultural ... to the humans. I will examine the relationship of the fairies with the human world as it is presented in Shakespeare's text and see how Michael Hoffman and Bernard Haitink, Peter Hall and John Bury interp...

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... the 1600's and to see if ourviews on comedy are the same today. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a festive comedy. The play takesplace in June and this is a bewitched time. In the spring thecustom is to celebrate the return of fertility to the earth. During this time the young people spend the night in the woods tocelebrate. Shakespeare uses the greenworld pattern in this play. The play begins in the city, moves out to the ... country and then backto the city. Being in the country makes things better becausethere is tranquility, freedom and people can become uncivilizedversus when they are i...

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