A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream by English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare is a comedy combining love, fairies, magic and dreams. Today, William Shakespeare's literary works are just as contemporary as when they were being written. In the modern day film version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', director Michael Hoffman successfully combines the different elements of drama so as to awaken the audiences imagination to the themes of enchantment and illusion. This is achieved by emphasising place, characterisation, mood, tension of relationships and dramatic meaning. In retrospect, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is an opulent, magical and enchanting movie that seeks to explore the realms of illusion.Set in Tuscany at the end of the 19th century, the film successfully explores the themes of enchantment and illusion by the choice of setting and place. Unlike the text, the film version takes place in Tuscany, Italy in the Victorian Age. Perhaps Hoffman chose Italy instead of Greece due to the universal romantic feeling that it creates. Unlik
e today, Greece was the centre of classical history, therefore popular within the people of his day. The invention by Hoffman of the town, Monte Athena, located in Tuscany draws parallels between the text and film versions. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is the most romantic and intricate of Shakespeares works and therefore a beautiful setting such as Tuscany was needed to fulfil the plays themes of enchantment and illusion. Hoffman has significantly created and manipulated every scene within the film so that it portrays these themes so as to awaken the audiences imagination to enchantment and illusion within ones life. In conclusion, a superb, poignant, magical and enchanting film has successfully changed the classic play by William Shakespeare into a visual masterpiece. Director Michael Hoffman obviously revelled in the opportunity to create scenes of unparalleled beauty and magnificance and ultimately, a visually extraordinary film has been created. Clever characterisation within the film of such characters as the comical Bottom or evil Puck create an evident and interesting contrast and opens ones imagination to the magical illusion being foreseen. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is comical
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