CENTRAL LITERARY WORK: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
NOVELS
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Celtic Night : A Fifteen Year Old Girl's Modern Retelling Of Shakespeare's A
Midsummer Night's Dream by Bridget O’Dwyer
Magic Street by Orson Scott Card
A Midsummer Night's Gene by Andrew Harman.
Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
PICTURE BOOKS
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Donkey Head by Lisl Weil
Tales from Shakespeare by Marcia Williams
William Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki
FILMS
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William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2000)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
A Midsummer Night's Dream Royal Shakespeare Company film (1968)
Midsummer (1999)
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream (2001)
Get Over It (2001)
GRAPHIC NOVELS
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The Sandman: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
A Midwinter Morning's Tale by Hugo Pratt
ARTWORK
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www.the-quill.com/TheCollectedWorks/Comedies/MidsummerNightsDream/RelatedArt/PiccyMaster.htm
www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/MidsummerPaintings.html:
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Blake, William. Oberon, Titania and Puck (c. 1785)
Blake, William. Oberon and Titania on a Lily (c.1790-93)
Cowper, Frank Cadogan. Titania Sleeps in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1928)
Dadd, Richard. Contradiction. Oberon and Titania (1854-58)
Dadd, Richard. Puck and the Fairies (c. 1841)
Dadd, Richard. Titania Sleeping (1841)
Dadd, Richard. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (1855-64)
Danby, Francis. Scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1832)
Etty, William. Titania (no date)
Fuseli, Henry. Cobweb (1785-6)
Fuseli, Henry. Puck (c. 1790)
Fuseli, Henry. Oberon Squeezes the Flower on Titania's Eyelids (1793-4)
Fuseli, Henry. Titania and Bottom (1786-89)
Fuseli, Henry. Titania, Bottom and the Fairies (1793-4)
Fuseli, Henry. Titania's Awakening (1785-89)
Sample Text Set for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Created by Daria Plumb
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Huskisson, Robert. The Midsummer Night's Fairies (1847)
Huskisson, Robert. Titania Asleep
Maclise, Daniel. The Disenchantment of Bottom (1832)
Mortimer, John Hamilton. The Poet (1775)
Paton, Joseph Noel. The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania (1847)
Paton, Joseph Noel. The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania (1850)
Paton, Joseph Noel. Titania (1850)
Paton, Joseph Noel. Titania's Elves Stealing the Squirrel's Hoard
Paton, Joseph Noel. The Fairy Raid (1867)
Paton, Joseph Noel. Oberon and the Mermaid (1883)
Romney, George. Titania, Puck, and the Changeling (1793)
Scott, David. Puck Fleeing from the Dawn (1837)
Simmons, John. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Simmons, John. Titania
Stothard, Thomas. Oberon and Titania (1806)
Turner, J. M. W. Queen Mab's Cave (1846)
POEMS
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“The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow” (early 17th c. broadside – thought to be
the work of Ben Jonson)
“The Fairy Kingdom” and “Rushen Glen” by Frances Jenkins Olcott (from Wonder
Tales from Fairy Isles)
“Robin Goodfellow” (ancient ballad)
“Puck of Pook’s Hill” by Rudyard Kipling
TV SHOWS
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The Animated Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1992)
BBC Television Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
ShakespeaRe-Told A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005)
INTERNET SOURCES
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Absolute Shakespeare http://absoluteshakespeare.com/index.htm
Mr. William Shakespeare http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Shakespeare Resource Center //www.bardweb.net/
Stratford-Upon-Avon www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/wslife.htm
Puck – That Shrewd and Knavish Sprite Called Robin Goodfellow
www.boldoutlaw.com/puckrobin/puck.html
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream
SONGS
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Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (opera) by Benjamin Britten
The Fairy-Queen (semi-opera) by Henry Purcell
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack by Renee Fleming and Simon Boswell
Sample Text Set for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Created by Daria Plumb
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
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“William Shakespeare” from Lives of the Writers (Comedies, Tragedies, and What the
Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt
William Shakespeare: Life of Drama [videorecording] A&E Television Networks
The Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare by Diane Stanley and Peter
Vennema
William Shakespeare by Dorothy Turner
Shakespeare, A Pictorial Biography by F.E. Halliday
Shakespeare: His Work and His World by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Robert Ingpen
FOLKLORE & LEGENDS
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Fairy Folklore < www2.prestel.co.uk/aspen/sussex/fairies.html#main1 >
Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee
The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries by Pierre Dubois, Claudine Sabatier, and Roland
Sabatier
Folklore of Shakespeare by T. F. Thiselton Dyer
Fairy Island: An Enchanted Tour of the Homes of the Little Folk by Laura Martin and
Cameron Martin
HISTORIES
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Shakespeare's World [videorecording] Direct Entertainment, Ltd.
MISCELLANEOUS
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The Young Person's Guide to Shakespeare: With Performances on CD by the Royal
Shakespeare Company by Anita Ganeri
Shakespeare by Peter Chrisp
Shakespeare for Kids: His Life and Times: 21 Activities by Colleen Aageson
Essential Shakespeare Handbook by Leslie Dunton-Downer
What Would Shakespeare Do? Personal Advice from the Bard by Jess Winfield
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
SHORT STORIES
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Sample Text Set for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Created by Daria Plumb