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A Midsummer Night Dream comperative essay

Date Submitted: 07/17/2003 19:01:09
Category: / Arts & Humanities
Length: 7 pages (2051 words)
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is arguably the best play ever written by William Shakespeare. The play has undergoes numerous transformations, being re-invented in musical and dozen of films. The text shows it great usefulness with each new interpretation depending on the director’s version, A Midsummer Night’s Dream can be a light fantasy, a dark nightmare, a jesting comedy, or a semi-serious melodrama. Michael Hoffman, director of the 1999 production of A Midsummer Night’…

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…for the director to reproduce since the setting is very difficult to locate as well as finding the right actor who can speak the language of Shakespeare well, so I think reproducing these scene is a difficult task. Overall “Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a decent enough Shakespeare film, but it will never measure up to other great Shakespeare film such as “Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V”, “Richard III”, “Romeo + Juliet”, and “Shakespeare in love”.

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