A Midsummer Night Dream comperative essay
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is arguably the best play ever written by William Shakespeare. The play has undergoes numerous transformations, being re-invented in musical and dozen of films. The text shows it great usefulness with each new interpretation depending on the director’s version, A Midsummer Night’s Dream can be a light fantasy, a dark nightmare, a jesting comedy, or a semi-serious melodrama. Michael Hoffman, director of the 1999 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has present it on the big screen with a new look of modernize atmosphere and setting. Hoffman does not stay true to the text, but he must take liberties to allow this film to be entertaining to today’s audience. In this essay I will compare the similarity and difference between the text version and the film version of Act 1.1, 2.1, and 3.1 in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in terms of the setting and time, Hoffman’s characters adaptation, and finally Hoffman’s personal adaptation, In Michael Hoffman’s film A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hoffman has made some changes to the location and time period of the play. Hoffman’s change the setting of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Ancient Greece in the text to the 19th century in a town of Monte Athena in Italy. Hoffm
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Approximate Word count = 2000
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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