Books with title A Midsummer Night's Dream

More than 60 minutes of audio on the CD including key scenes and excerpts from great performances past and presentBringing Shakespeare to life, from stage to pageIn the book:Photographs from notable productions including:-the 1935 Dieterle/Reinhardt film with James Cagney as Bottom and Mickey Rooney as Puck-Peter Brook's seminal 1970 production at the Royal Shakespeare Company-contemporary American productions with James Earl Jones as Oberon, F. Murray Abraham as Bottom and Richard Gere as DemetriusHear 30 great scenes on audio CD:-Sir John Gielgud from the 1930s-Michael Maloney as Oberon and Roy Hudd as Bottom-Andrew Wade on Speaking ShakespeareNarrated by Derek Jacobi

A Wild, Outlandish Dream of a Play "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." — William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream) A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's plays that has been performed thousands of times and adapted into many different mediums. The story centers around three couples. The humans are Duke Theseus and Hippolyta, and Hermia, who is betrothed to Demetrius and her beloved, Lysander. There is also a dispute brewing between Oberon, the king of the fairies and his Queen, Titania. When a mischievous sprite named Puck enters the scene, absurdity ensues. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This ebook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes Get your next Xist Classic title for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1A7cKKl Find all our our books for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1PooxLl Sign up for the Xist Publishing Newsletter here. Find more great titles on our website.

In R.L. Stine's A Midsummer Night's Scream, the Master of Horror takes on the Master of Theatre!Oh, what fools these actors be!It was a horror movie that turned into real horror--three young actors lost their lives while the camera rolled. Production stopped, and people claimed that the movie was cursed.Sixty years later, new actors are venturing onto the haunted set. In a desperate attempt to revive their failing studio, Claire's dad has green-lit a remake of Mayhem Manor—and Claire and her friends are dying to be involved.At first, Claire laughs at Jake's talk of ghosts and curses. He's been too busy crushing on her best friend Delia to notice that she's practically been throwing herself at him. What does he know? And anyway, this is her big chance to be a star!When shooting starts, though, the set is plagued by a series of horrible accidents—could history be repeating itself?

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the magic begins. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and ultimately restored.

One of Shakespeare's dark comedies, this play tells of lovers forbidden to marry and depicts mysterious happenings in sinister woods. It concludes with a happy ending. Shakespeare's immortal dramas are now available in illustrated form for classroom use! This revolutionary way of introducing the timeless comedies and tragedies of the Bard of Avon combines the art form of the graphic novel with written passages taken directly from Shakespeare's texts. Children first studying Shakespeare are sometimes intimidated by the difficulty of his language. They will often miss the excitement and suspense in his story lines and the fascination of the wonderful characters he has created. Approaching his plays in the form of graphic-novel-style picture stories, supplemented with excerpts from the original dialogue, can be a young student's important first step in truly understanding and appreciating Shakespeare's masterpieces. Preceding the action of each play, these books offer brief summaries explaining what the play is all about, followed by illustrated casts of characters, each character shown with a brief descriptive caption. Supplementing each title in this series is a separately available teacher's guide that suggests topics for classroom discussion and advises on imaginative activities that fit the classroom environment and coincide with the five acts of each play.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.