43 Facts About Midsummer Nights Dream

1. Midsummer Nights Dream wrote the pieces for a cappella SATB choir in 1951 for the British Federation of Music Festivals, and they remain a popular part of British choral repertoire today.

2. Midsummer Nights Dream portrayed the fairies as golden robotic insectoid creatures based on Cambodian idols.

3. Midsummer Nights Dream replaced large, complex sets with a simple system of patterned curtains.

4. Midsummer Nights Dream viewed the donkey and the trees as fertility symbols.

5. Midsummer Nights Dream concluded that therefore their love life is "unknowable and incomprehensible".

6. Midsummer Nights Dream focused on the role of the fairies, who have a mysterious aura of evanescence and ambiguity.

7. Midsummer Nights Dream viewed the characters as separated into four groups which interact in various ways.

8. Midsummer Nights Dream is responsible for the play's happy ending, when he influences Theseus to overrule Egeus and allow the lovers to marry.

9. Midsummer Nights Dream viewed the king as specialising in the arts of illusion.

10. Midsummer Nights Dream emphasised the less pleasant aspects of the otherwise appealing fairies and the nastiness of the mortal Demetrius prior to his enchantment.

11. Midsummer Nights Dream emphasised the ethically ambivalent characters of the play.

12. Midsummer Nights Dream thought Bottom was redeemed through the maternal tenderness of Titania, which allowed him to understand the love and self-sacrifice of Pyramus and Thisbe.

13. Midsummer Nights Dream reminded his readers that this is the character of Theseus from Greek mythology, a creation himself of "antique fable".

14. Midsummer Nights Dream traced these themes to the works of Macrobius, Apuleius, and Giordano Bruno.

15. Midsummer Nights Dream counted among them fantasy, blind love, and divine love.

16. Midsummer Nights Dream viewed the play as representing three phases or movements.

17. Midsummer Nights Dream cited the lightness of the characterisation as supporting of his view.

18. Midsummer Nights Dream thought that Bottom was conceited but good natured, and shows a considerable store of imagination in his interaction with the representatives of the fairy world.

19. Midsummer Nights Dream commented favourably on their individualisation and their collective richness of character.

20. Midsummer Nights Dream described them as homely creatures with "hard hands and thick heads".

21. Midsummer Nights Dream views this supposed friendship as not grounded in spiritual association.

22. Midsummer Nights Dream speaks of the Indies as scented with the aroma of flowers and as the place where mortals live in the state of a half-dream.

23. Midsummer Nights Dream's views on the Indies seem to Kehler to be influenced by Orientalism.

24. Midsummer Nights Dream thought that it was an allegorical depiction of the errors of sensual love, which is likened to a dream.

25. Midsummer Nights Dream denied the theory that this play should be seen as a dream.

26. Midsummer Nights Dream viewed Bottom as the best-drawn character, with his self-confidence, authority, and self-love.

27. Midsummer Nights Dream thought that this play indicated Shakespeare's maturity as a playwright, and that its "Thesean harmony" reflects proper decorum of character.

28. Midsummer Nights Dream agreed with Malone that this did not fit their stations in life, but viewed this behaviour as an indication of parody about class differences.

29. Midsummer Nights Dream viewed Oberon as angry with the "caprices" of his queen, but unable to anticipate that her charmed affections would be reserved for a weaver with a donkey's head.

30. Midsummer Nights Dream was particularly amused by the way Bottom reacts to the love of the fairy queen: completely unfazed.

31. Midsummer Nights Dream viewed Bottom as a lucky man on whom Fortune showered favours beyond measure.

32. Midsummer Nights Dream regarded Theseus as the voice of Shakespeare himself and the speech as a call for imaginative audiences.

33. Midsummer Nights Dream turned his attention to Theseus' speech about "the lunatic, the lover, and the poet" and to Hippolyta's response to it.

34. Midsummer Nights Dream's notes that prior to the 1840s, all stage productions of this play were adaptations unfaithful to the original text.

35. Midsummer Nights Dream concluded that poetry and the stage do not fit together.

36. Midsummer Nights Dream identified the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe as a burlesque of the Athenian lovers.

37. Midsummer Nights Dream found this to be a grave error of the writer.

38. Midsummer Nights Dream found that the "more exalted characters" are subservient to the interests of those beneath them.

39. Midsummer Nights Dream felt the depiction of the supernatural was among Shakespeare's strengths, not weaknesses.

40. Midsummer Nights Dream concluded that poets should be allowed to depict things which do not exist but derive from popular belief.

41. Midsummer Nights Dream was preoccupied with the question of whether fairies should be depicted in theatrical plays, since they did not exist.

42. Midsummer Nights Dream states that during times of carnival and festival, male power is broken down.

43. Midsummer Nights Dream would rather be a tyrant and recites some lines of Ercles.