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Performance Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream

This movie production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream was produced and directed by Kevin Kline in 1999?. As far as play to movie adaptations go this one was successful in the fact that it didn't lose much in translation. Though it did cut out some of Shakespeare's words it refrained from rearranging too much of the scene order and thus succeeded in not detracting from the true spirit of his play. The themes and symbolism manage to remain intact throughout the entirety of the play. Also, though this version of the play was set in the early nineteenth century as opposed to ancient Athenian times, none of the meanings and circumstances seem out of place or irrelevant. Though the theme of lovers running away to be together is as timeless as they come. The lovers are running away in stifling dresses and pants and vest as opposed to togas and robes, yet they are still just trying to escape the controlling father that would......

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