Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare We have watched two versions of midsummer nights dream. The versions we have watched are: The BBC production, by Elijah Moshinsky made in 1981. The other one was made in 1995 and was an Adrian Noble version by Film 4. At the start of the play, both of them where very different. In the Elijah Moshinsky version, which is set in the civil war times, there was royal music being played. The music could be classed as Fan fair, the music faded when they started to talk. Then the film then went to a courtroom, it was a very unfriendly place. At first it was just Hippolyta pacing the floor, the director probably did this to make her look like she was trapped and she had nowhere to go, to me it looked like she was a tiger in a cage, she seemed very uncomfortable, this is because she had to live her life how others told her too. I also get the idea that she is depressed because she is wearing dark colours. This shows she isn't happy, or she has maybe lost some one close to her and she is mourning their death. Then Theseus entered with his mean. As soon as he entered the room he had a presence, which was not for the better, it was a kind of un-easing presence. They seemed very uncomfortable with each other and they were not the like they were just about to get married but more of people who have grudges against each other. I thought this because they stood facing each other in a non-romantic way but in a more challenging way, with Theseus on one side with all his men behind him in a specific formation and then on the other side there was Hippolyta with all her maids behind her, they looked like they were ready for war. In addition, what made this was because Theseus was in full body armour like he was ready to fight a battle, looking dirty and not very respectable? Also it looked like a

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