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
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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