English Literature - Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act 1 Scene 1 – Setting the scene

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 5'44''

From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream', the opening scene.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act 1 Scene 2 – Quince’s acting troupe

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 5'40''

From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream', the theatre troupe bick...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act 5 Scene 1 – Pyramus and Thisbe

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 9'20''

From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream', the theatre troupe's production o...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act 3 Scene 2 – The bewitched lovers argue

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 3'42''

From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream', bewitched by Oberon's lov...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act 3 Scene 1 – Titania and Bottom

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 4'06''

From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream', Titania wakes up with the love po...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act 2 Scene 1 – The love potion

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 3'44''

From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream', Oberon uses a love potion to Titani...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act 2 Scene 1 – Oberon and Titania argue

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 4'35''

From Russell T Davies' adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream', Oberon and Titania's argument.

Drama on 3 | Mendelssohn Weekend – A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Part 2

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Red Button | 1'07'08''

A rare chance to watch Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for it...

Drama on 3 | Mendelssohn Weekend – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Red Button | 1'12'39''

A rare chance to watch Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for it, in a r...

Dance Month | The Dream: A Month in the Country: Part 2

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Two | 44'40''

Robin Ray introduces a programme devoted to the work of Frederick Ashton. It includes an outline of his career with p...

Dance Month | The Dream: A Month in the Country

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Two | 1'02'25''

Robin Ray introduces a programme devoted to the work of Frederick Ashton. It includes an outline of his career with photograp...

Susan Cooper – King of Shadows

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 4 Extra | 43'56''

An American boy actor comes to London, and his Shakespearian experience turns out to be highly authentic. With Robert Glenister.

The Best Bottoms in the Land | Shakespeare’s Dream in London

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 29'07''

Following six amateur actors as they join the Royal Shakespeare Company in performing A Midsummer Night's ...

Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Four | 2'41'56''

Shakespeare's riotous tale of love and magic, filmed live at the Globe Theatre in 2016. Emma Rice's exuberan...

Drama on 3 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 3 | 2'00'16''

Adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy centring on the adventures of four young lovers, recorded on location in 22 acres of Sussex w...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1991)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 3 | 2'23'22''

A production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.

Words and Music | Translation

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 3 | 1'14'00''

William Shakespeare, trans. Prof. Mohamed Enani Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day (Sonnet 18) read by Islam Issa and William Shakespeare A...

Front Row | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 4 | 41'19''

Screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce and critic Helen Nugent review the first Shakespeare production at the new Shakespeare North th...

ShakespeaRe-told | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 1'25'55''

An updated retelling of Shakespeare's romantic comedy. A Midsummer Night's Dream is transferred to a holiday centre. Cue f...

The Reunion | Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 4 | 41'35''

Sue MacGregor reunites cast and creatives to explore how director Peter Brook's revolutionary A Midsummer N...

Sunday Night Theatre | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC TV | 1'39'43''

The earliest surviving television adaptation of Shakespeare's magical play, broadcast on 9 November 1958, in the BBC's Sun...

Sorry! | Bottom of the Class

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 29'43''

Sitcom starring Ronnie Corbett as Timothy Lumsden, who is promoted from prompter to Bottom in local dramatic society production of A Midsummer N...

Play of the Month | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC One | 1'57'00''

A 1971 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic comedy, broadcast as part of the Play of the Month drama strand. The play ...

English Time | Get The Meaning – A Midsummer Night’s Dreams

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Two | 18'59''

The RSC, Northern Broadsides theatre company and Hartcliffe School in Bristol, offer three very diffe...

Throwing Out The Cobwebs

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Two | 49'03''

When Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opened on Broadway, the New York theatre critic, Clive Barnes, described it as ' ... with...

Upstart Crow | Series 3

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Two | 29'13''

Shakespearean sitcom: Will has a problem with A Midsummer Night's Dream, a love potion and a donkey head.

Prefaces to Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 4 | 28'40''

The actress, Frances De La Tour, who played Helena in Peter Brook's 1970 production for the Royal Shakespeare Theat...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1970) | Part 2

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 3 | 1'06'49''

The second part of a radio version of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night's Dream, arranged and produced in stereo by Raymon...

Shakespeare: Love Across the Racial Divide | 04: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 4 | 15'00''

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores five Shakespeare plays that cross the racial divide. This edit...

Shakespeare Unlocked | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Two | 59'15''

Key scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream are explored through performance, to unlock the meaning of language and deve...

The Monday Play | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 4 | 2'37'59''

A radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, produced and directed by David Spenser. The music is performed by the Trinity Boy...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1970)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 3 | 1'08'00''

The first part of a radio version of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night's Dream, arranged and produced in stereo by Raymond Raikes. ...

Sound Stories | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 3 | 58'55''

Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot line of a Shakespearean comedy and plays music associated with it. These includes works by M...

Shakespeare Shorts | A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III, Scene 2

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Two | 19'01''

Television programme for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare i...

The Sunday Play | A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC Radio 3 | 2'11'05''

Radio 3's Shakespeare season continues with a 1999 radio adaptation of the Bard's magical comedy. This production was broad...

A Summer in Dubrovnik

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | BBC TV | 45'53''

The 1956 Festival is remembered by five visitors in a film made by the BBC Television Film Unit in co-operation with Filmske Novosti , Belgrade. The fi...