A Midsummer Nights Dream, William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Nights Dream, William Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Paul Scofield, (Null) Cast

Abridged: 2 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 12/27/2003

Synopsis

""How shall we beguile the lazy time,if not with some delight?""

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the WildThings Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

About (Null) Cast

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914. In 1934 his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems appeared, followed by Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and in 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems. He also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories and talks, did a series of lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, the radio play.During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, a few days after his 39th birthday, he collapsed in his New York hotel and died on November 9th at St. Vincent's Hospital. His body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, where his grave is marked by a simple wooden cross.In June 1994, his wife, Caitlin Thomas, died in Italy, where she had spent most of the years of her life after the death of Dylan Thomas. Her body is buried next to his.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on May 07, 2025

That Helena is a bitch. I know the big draw for this play is all the fairy goings-on, but upon re-reading/re-listening to it for the umpteenth time, I was more interested in the insane inner workings of Helena's mind. Ok. Get this. Hermia and Lysander are in love. But Hermia's dad wants her to marry D......more

Goodreads review by jessica on April 25, 2020

how to flirt, shakespeare style, a midsummer nights dream edition:- elope with your love in a fairy wood - follow your friends into the fairy wood with your ex-fiancé, who you still pine over even though he loves another woman - become entranced by magic flower juice and chase after the wrong girl unt......more

Goodreads review by Bill on July 21, 2021

Re-reading the play this time, I couldn't stop thinking about The Magic Flute. Like Mozart's opera, Shakespeare's play may have a silly plot composed of fanciful, seemingly arbitrary elements, yet, through the power of absolute artistic mastery, the framework of what might otherwise be nothing but a......more

Goodreads review by Emma on August 13, 2020

"And with her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him. How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes." i felt that Hermia......more

Goodreads review by Henry on February 06, 2021

One of Shakespeare's most popular comic plays though a figment of the imagination an illusion, a delusion in actuality that's the pity... such a delectable world to inhabit. Essentially a love story between two couples, a thin plot device in a mythical Athens which never was . Lysander loves his gir......more

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