1. A midsummer nights dream
Throughout the course of their dance their change of feelings towards each other is apparent. At first Hyppolita resists Theseus request for love and marriage but as time goes on and she sees how he really is her hate turns to love and she accepts his marriage proposal. The only costumes I disliked in the whole show were those of Queen Hyppolita. To me her both her normal dress and her wedding dress should have been more distinguishing of a queen. They both seemed too plain and in a way soldier like, in the sense that her costumes looked very similar to that of her women warriors. I also felt that her hairstyling and adornments could have been made more to look like a crown, to make a bigger statement of her status. .
In the final portion of the first act a series of pas de deux are performed between Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius. Their tangled web of love is shown as Helena displays her affection for Demetrius, while Demetrius expresses his love for Hermia, and while Hermia and Lysander proclaim their love for one another. The contact between the dancers also helped to show their intended feelings. Lifts and movements which depended on the other's support showed the feelings of love, while movements away from the other helped to convey a sense of resistance. I feel the dancers did well in expressing the feelings of their characters and the choreography of their movements served to further enhance the mood of the show.
The second act takes place in the forest and is centered on the magical world of King Oberon and Queen Titania. The act begins with the fairies and elves entertaining the King and Queen with dance. During this entertainment there were four soloists who each danced a piece for the King and Queen. I thought their dancing was beautiful and eloquently executed. Their light movements and smooth form aided the setting of the magical feel of the forest and its beauty.
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream is a classic love story about two young would-be couples, and an aspiring actor named Bottom who end up being caught in the middle of a lovers quarrel between Oberon, the king of the fairies and Titania, his Queen. ... Just like how Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream is based on a dream world, so are these little magical creatures named fairies. ... Peter Hall and Michael Hoffman are both very prestigious filmmakers and both of their versions tend to depict a very distinct image...
A Midsummer Nights Dream In Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" the mortal teenage characters fall in love foolishly, and the character Bottom states, "O what fools these mortals be". ... Then let us teach or trial patience, Because it is a customary cross, As due to love, as thoughts and dreams and sighs, Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers." ... William Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Dream shows how childishly foolish lovers can be....
William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play primarily on the difficulty of love. ... As the title alludes to, dreams are an important theme in A Midsummer Night's Dream; dreams are an important theme in the play. Hippolyta first words in the play show how essential dreams will be; "Four days will quickly steep themselves into night, Four nights will quickly dream away the time... Shakespeare loves the inter-workings of dreams, how they occur, and even the sense of lost time in dreams. ... In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare creates of wo...
A Midsummer Night's Dream was originally named "A Midsummer Night's Dream". On October 8th 1600, Thomas Fisher published "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in quarto format thought to have been printed from Shakespeare's own handwritten copy. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare is the most popular comedy, it portrays the adventures of four young lovers, and their interactions with woodland fairies. ... Characters In "A Midsummer Night's Dream" the characters are depicted as fictional individual because they fall in love, they s...
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is just one of Shakespeare's many masterpieces. ... There are many different themes in "A Midsummer Nights Dream", and I will describe all of them to you. ... Conclusion So, in conclusion, "A Midsummer Nights Dream" has many qualities to it. ... I think "A Midsummer Nights Dream" is a popular play because of the qualities within it, and Shakespeare was defiantly ahead of his time when he wrote this for the stage....
The complex circle of love in A Midsummer Nights Dream', that Shakespeare portrays, contains both a crude and chaotic love, such as with Bottom and Titania, and a symbolic love, such as with Lysander and Hermia representing chastity. ... On the contrary Hippolyta feels the four days leading up to their wedding day is racing by, "Four will quickly steep themselves in night; four nights will quickly dream away the time."" ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, love is a token thing dispersed by a sprite. ...
The headstrong and chaotic personalities of the female characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream represent Queen Elizabeth I's resistance to male dominance throughout her reign as a Monarch of England. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare not only composes a simple and thoughtless comedy, but he constructs a social commentary that investigates the various gender roles and explores the inferiority of women in Elizabethan society. In A Midsummer Night's Dream elements of social critique are present in the opening seen with the conflict between Hermia and her father Egeus...
In A Midsummer Night's Dream there are 5 acts, even though it is not really necessary to have the last act due to the fact that a good amount of the action ends at the final scene of act 4. ... Almost one-half of the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, was the play, Thisbe & Pyramus. ...