A Midsummer Night's Dream: a visit to the theatre!

Tomorrow, 22nd January, the school is attending a theatre performance, i.e. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare: Biography mindmap

 Shakespeare's Life Handout

http://www.shakespearehigh.com/classroom/bio_handout.shtml 

 

 

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream: the plot

 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” William Shakespeare's most popular comedy, was written around 1594 or 95. It portrays the adventures of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with woodland fairies and a duke and duchess. Taking place in a mythical Athens and an enchanted forest, there is a handsome fairy king, a misguided parent, star-crossed lovers, a weaver who's transformed into a half-donkey, wood sprites and elves. This work is widely performed around the world, and no wonder - it's about the world's most popular pastime, falling in love. But as Puck knows, falling in love can make fools of us all.

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Globe} 

 
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames that was destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. The modern reconstruction is an academic approximation based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings. It was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker and built about 230 metres from the site of the original theatre and opened to the public in 1997, with a production of Henry V.

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^{The Globe Theatre project}

   

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