A midsummer night's dream

Resource Information

The work A midsummer night's dream represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A midsummer night's dream

Statement of responsibility

by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Jonathan Miller ; director, Elijah Moshinsky

Creator

• Midsummer night's dream (Television program : 1981 : British Broadcasting Corporation)

Contributor

• McEnery, Peter
• Guard, Pippa
• Glover, Brian, 1934-1997
• Miller, Jonathan, 1934-2019
• Mirren, Helen
• Daniels, Phil
• Moshinsky, Elijah
• Time-Life Television
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service
• Ambrose Video Publishing

Actor

• Guard, Pippa
• McEnery, Peter
• Daniels, Phil
• Mirren, Helen

Director

• Moshinsky, Elijah

Producer

• Miller, Jonathan, 1934-2019

Subject

• Fairy plays
• Kings and rulers -- Drama
• Romance films
• Romantic comedy films
• Comedy films
• Courtship -- Drama
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Filmed performances
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Television adaptations
• Televised performances
• Television adaptations
• Television comedies
• Television plays
• Television programs
• Video recordings
• Athens (Greece) -- Drama

Genre

• Comedy films
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Filmed performances
• Romance films
• Romantic comedy films
• Televised performances
• Television adaptations
• Television comedies
• Television plays
• Television programs
• Video recordings

Language

eng

Summary

Shakespeare's play about devilish fairies, bedeviled lovers and tradesmen-actors. Plots intertwine as entangled love affairs, the comical performance of a "play within a play" by the tradesmen of Athens, and the antics in fairyland among King Oberon and his queen Titania produce a bizarre series of entanglements, but all ends happily

Member of

• Complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare. Comedy
• Shakespeare plays (Television program)
• Works

Cataloging source

CUY

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Director, Elijah Moshinsky
• Senior cameraman, Jim Atkinson ; music composed by Stephen Oliver ; video tape editor, Graham Taylor

Date time place

Taped Aug. 15-21, 1984 at the BBC Television studios in London

LC call number

PR2827

LC item number

.A23 2000

PerformerNote

Estelle Kohler (Hippolyta), Nigel Davenport (Theseus), Hugh Quarshie (Philostrate), Geoffrey Lumsden (Egeus), Pippa Guard (Hermia), Nicky Henson (Demetrius), Robert Lindsay (Lysander), Cherith Mellor (Helena), Geoffrey Palmer (Quince), Brian Glover (Bottom), John Fowler (Flute), Don Estelle (Starveling), Nat Jackley (Snout), Ray Mort (Snug), Phil Daniels (Puck), Helen Mirren (Titania), Peter McEnery (Oberon), Tania Bennett (Fairy), Alexandra Segal (Fairy), Louise Mason (Fairy), Lee Macdonald (Fairy), Bruce Savage (Peaseblossom), Massimo Mezzofanti (Cobweb), Dominic Martelli (Moth), Timothy Cross (Mustardseed)

Runtime

112

Series statement

• Shakespeare plays Ambrose Video
• Complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare. Comedy

Technique

live action