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A Midsummer Night's Listmania
A Listmania! list by Kentish Sir Byng

1. The BBC Shakespeare Collection: A Midsummer Night's Dream [DVD] DVD ~ BBC Classic Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"Earthy, threatening production from Jonathan Miller. A Fuseli atmosphere. A rather frightening Puck!"

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2. A Midsummer Nights Dream [DVD] [1999] DVD ~ Kevin Kline

The list author says:
	"Hollywood fun, comedy played well, especially 'Pyramus and Thisbe' at the end. Soundtrack includes much Italian opera."

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3. A Midsummer Night's Dream [DVD] [1996] DVD ~ Lindsay Duncan

The list author says:
	"A deliberately childish production from the 80s. Adrian Noble directs."

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4. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Pacific Northwest Ballet [DVD] [1999] DVD ~ Patricia Barker

The list author says:
	"George Balanchine put together this ballet from Mendelssohn's music. Titania and Bottom steal the show with their dance together."

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5. Benjamin Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona 2005) [DVD] [2006] DVD ~ David Daniels

The list author says:
	"Britten's opera with a minimalist staging from Robert Carsen. Musically very good as well."

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6. Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Glyndebourne Festival Opera [1981] [DVD] [2004] DVD ~ Bernard Haitink

The list author says:
	"Haitink and Hall get together for a Glyndebourne staging of the Britten opera. Wonderful, I probably prefer it over the Carsen above."

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7. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Act 4 (A Midsummer Night's Dream & Richard III) [DVD] DVD ~ Shakespeare - the Animated Tales

The list author says:
	"Cell-animated version lasting 30 minutes. Basic cartoon, but the story (and parts of dialogue) are there and may well amuse children. Lullaby of Titania a memorable sequence."

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8. Purcell - The Fairy Queen / Les Arts Florissants, Christie by Nancy Argenta

The list author says:
	"Purcell's Fairy Queen is a masque interspersing itself into the Midsummer tale. This is the best performance of it overall."

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9. Purcell - The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell

The list author says:
	"Budget recording of the Purcell, mixed quality but worth it for the comedy duet between Corydon and Mopsa alone."

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10. Lampe: Pyramus and Thisbe by John Frederick Lampe

The list author says:
	"Lampe's one-act comic opera, libretto very closely based on Shakespeare play within play. Funny parody of Handel, particularly the Lion's 'Ladies don't fright you, I will delight you'."

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11. Orpheus with His Lute - Music for Shakespeare (English Orpheus, Vol 50) /Bott � Brown � The Parley of Instruments � Holman by Thomas Arne

The list author says:
	"Shakespeare songs sung by Catherine Bott. Includes a very nice setting of the Fairies' lullaby to Titania in a setting by John Christopher Smith, pupil of Handel."

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12. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Performed by Warren Mitchell & Cast (Classic Drama) by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"Full cast audio dramatization, with music from the Purcell masque. If not a classic performance, the chance to imagine the scenes oneself with just the voices is not to be missed."

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13. A Midsummer Night's Dream: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring David Threlfall & Cast (BBC Radio Collection) by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"BBC's own audio dramatization now out of print but available as audiobook download from online sites - excellent use of childrens' voices for Puck and the fairies."

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14. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"Penguin Popular Classics edition. Give a copy to the young backpacker as she sets off."

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15. "A Midsummer Nights Dream" (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"Arden edition. Read a few lines from this to your lover during the hot long nights."

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16. The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"Oxford critical edition. Read the introductory essay and then impose your new insights on anyone who wears comedy ears in your presence."

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17. A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"Cambridge edition: a great many footnotes and alternative spellings."

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18. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"Ideal school edition. Hand out a copy to new students, warning, "How quick bright things come to confusion.""

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19. Bottom: on Shakespeare (Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writing) by Louis Zukofsky

The list author says:
	"Starting from the Bottom: An enormous collage of Shakespeare and other sources, driven by a thesis on the role of the eye. Considered a modernist work similar to Benjamin's Arcades Project."

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20. Manga Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, A by Kate Brown

The list author says:
	"Manga Shakespeare - a Lamb's Tales for our time, cleverly laid out, only lightly abridged. Enchanting - or else the Puck a liar call."

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21. Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten

The list author says:
	"Britten conducts his own opera - chilling from the moment of those opening glissandi, into the woods."

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22. Music For Shakespeare's Theatre by Various Composers

The list author says:
	"Songs for the lute - second-rate performances EXCEPT for one track, the lullaby for Titania sung to the tune Robin Goodfellow, which is sharp and bonny. Treat the CD as a single and get it for this."

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23. A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy [DVD] DVD ~ Woody Allen

The list author says:
	"I'd like my Shakespeare with a bit of Bergman please."

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24. Ben Jonson's The Masque of Oberon (reconstruction) /Musicians of the Globe � Pickett by Alfonso Ferabosco

The list author says:
	"And other works dealing with Oberon & his fairy crew...... Influenced Shakespeare; listen to this reconstruction and imagine the Inigo Jones setting."

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25. Weber: Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber

The list author says:
	"Oberon, Titania and Puck in a tale of a magic horn and a test of love. Weber's English fairy opera/masque adapted from German poem based on 9thc French romance."

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