Can you tell me a site that will give a brief (one page max) run down of what the story line is etc
I want to be able to try and get past all the oldie language and understand what the play is all about!!
Thanks
2006-07-10 20:22:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Here is a great site to explain the play to you. Enjoy yourself. It's a great play when it's done right. Very light-hearted and funny.
http://www.pathguy.com/mnd.htm
2006-07-11 07:44:15 · answer #1 · answered by just me 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We produced a version of MSND at the Dylan Thomas Theatre in Swansea UK recently. Here is the blurb used for that. Might help... might not!
The main plot of Midsummer is a complex contraption that involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated still further by their entrance into the play's fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies (Oberon and Titania) preside and the impish folk character of Puck or Robin Goodfellow plies his trade.
Less subplot than a brilliant satirical device, another set of characters — Bottom the weaver and his bumptious band of "rude mechanicals" — stumble into the main doings when they go into the same enchanted woods to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, their hilarious home-spun piece taking up Act V of Shakespeare's comedy.
A Midsummer Night's Dream contains some wonderfully lyrical expressions of lighter Shakespearean themes, most notably those of love, dreams, and the stuff of both, the creative imagination itself. Indeed, close scrutiny of the text by twentieth-century critics has led to a significant upward revision in the play's status, one that overlooks the silliness of its story and concentrates upon its unique lyrical qualities. If A Midsummer Night's Dream can be said to convey a message, it is that the creative imagination is in tune with the supernatural world and is best used to confer the blessings of Nature (writ large) upon mankind and marriage.
Very funny, though. Enjoy.
Dallas
2006-07-10 20:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by dallas s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People always assume that, because Shakespeare wrote in "old-fashioned" language, that the plots of the plays will not be accessible.
You will know *exactly* what's going on in MND; you will enjoy it; it will make you laugh; it will be a fantastic experience.
Enjoy!
2006-07-10 21:50:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
O dear I am not sure I would follow the play and I think I read the book once good luck
2006-07-11 06:35:26 · answer #4 · answered by Sam's 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little pest named Puck will use his faerie dust to make exactly
the wrong people fall in love with exactly the wrong people.
It's pretty funny. He pucks everything up!
2006-07-10 20:29:11 · answer #5 · answered by keats27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,type in Midsummer night dream you will get info.I have tried it & sites come up
2006-07-11 09:48:35 · answer #6 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
while there sit next to a nice lady who will be able to torrate your asking when you dont understand something and she will help you through the play.
2006-07-10 20:31:36 · answer #7 · answered by God you are my all in all in Jesus' name 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When shall we three meet again, in thunder lightning or in rain... - Macbeth
Romeo, oh Romeo - Romeo and Juliet... lol
2006-07-11 03:01:52 · answer #8 · answered by hippyJu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
precisely why you should see the show.
and see it again and again. it unfolds and unfolds. like reading a book all over again or watching replays and reruns.
enjoy it as a first-timer!
2006-07-10 21:25:30 · answer #9 · answered by the rose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you better get a friend who understand to accompany you so he can explain to you.
2006-07-10 20:27:47 · answer #10 · answered by Just come a while 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋