Film adaptations A Midsummer Night's Dream

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a midsummer night s dream has been adapted film many times. following best known.



a 1925 german silent film wood love directed hans neumann.
a 1935 film version directed max reinhardt , william dieterle. cast included james cagney bottom, mickey rooney puck, olivia de havilland hermia, joe e. brown francis flute, dick powell lysander , victor jory oberon.
a midsummer night s dream/sen noci svatojánské (1959) directed czech animator jiri trnka. stop-motion puppet film followed shakespeare s story narrator. (the english language version narrated richard burton).
a 1968 film version directed peter hall. cast included paul rogers bottom, ian holm puck, diana rigg helena, helen mirren hermia, ian richardson oberon, judi dench titania, , sebastian shaw quince. film stars royal shakespeare company, , directed peter hall.
a 1969 film version directed jean-christophe averty. cast included jean-claude drouot oberon, claude jade helena, christine delaroche hermia, marie versini hippolyta, michel modo flute, guy grosso quinze.
a midsummer night s sex comedy (1982) written , directed woody allen. plot loosely based on ingmar bergman s smiles of summer night, elements shakespeare s play.
bottom s dream (1983) animated short directed john canemaker, showing events of play point of view of bottom. film uses selections of mendelssohn s music, lines play, , surreal imagery convey bottom s experience.
dead poets society features play production neil perry tries out , wins role of puck, in spite of father s disapproval of acting aspirations.
a 1996 adaptation directed adrian noble. cast included desmond barrit bottom, finbar lynch puck, alex jennings oberon/theseus, , lindsay duncan titania/hippolyta. film based on noble s hugely popular royal shakespeare company production. art design eccentric, featuring forest of floating light bulbs , giant umbrella titania s bower.
a 1996 french film l appartement directed gilles mimouni has many references play.
a 1999 film version written , directed michael hoffman. cast includes kevin kline bottom, rupert everett oberon, michelle pfeiffer titania, stanley tucci puck, sophie marceau hippolyta, christian bale demetrius, dominic west lysander, , calista flockhart helena. adaptation relocates play s action athens fictional monte athena , located in tuscany, italy, although textual mentions of athens retained.
a 1999 version written , directed james kerwin. cast included travis schuldt demetrius. set story against surreal backdrop of techno clubs , ancient symbols.
the children s midsummer night s dream (2002) directed christine edzard, produced sands films @ studio in rotherhithe, london using 350 school children southwark, between ages of 8 , eleven, theatrically untrained. sets , costumes designed scale , made on site.
a midsummer night s rave (2002) directed gil cates jr. changes setting modern rave. puck drug dealer, magic flower called love-in-idleness replaced magic ecstasy, , king , queen of fairies host of rave , dj.
were world mine (2008) features modern interpretation of play put on in private high school in small town.
strange magic (2015) inspired play.




^ watts 1972, p. 48.
^ trailer strange magic, george lucas s next big movie . retrieved 2017-05-13. 






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