... 's text. Next I will describe and try to explain the particular elements of Haitink, Hall and Bury's adaptation and of Hoffman's film and relate the representation of the film and opera to other productions. By doing so I hope to illustrate that adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream are not unrelated events, but part of a larger cultural framework which influences the ... come to bless Hippolyta's and Theseus's wedding bed, which indicates a positive attitude towards marriage and thus love.1 Hoffman did not, as Mayo claims, reinterpreted Shakespeare's play in Hollywood fashion by giv...

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