Starting on 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

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A sickeningly sweet and sentimental Victorian view: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simmons-Hermia_and_Lysander._A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream.jpg

As you can probably tell, I'm not enamoured with the traditional Victorian view of A Midsummer Night's Dream; I much prefer the darker versions that have been around since Jan Kott in the early 1960s. 

The reason I'm bringing this up is that we have just recorded the video on plot for the play, and Cate will be editing it over the next couple of days so that it can go on the Youtube channel at the usual time on Sunday afternoon. Like many of the comedies, this play is extremely sophisticated, which means that making its layered structure accessible is a bit of a task. Since I've been working on this aspect of the play recently anyway, I decided to post that video first; characterisation will follow and then the one for the context.


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