Summary
The theater department at the University of California, Riverside, presents "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare through March 6.
Shakespeare's comedy conjures celebrations of May Day and the summer solstice.Whether or not the play was performed for a particular wedding, it brings to mind the heady mix of public and private joys of marriage.Though the narrative depends on no one source, Shakespeare's play brings together tantalizing threads of narrative from Ovid and The Golden Ass of Apuleius.See the full content of this document
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Midsummer' in Winter
Although once dismissed as too much like the play within a play, of which Hippolyta says, "This is ...
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