Game of Thrones star Christie is the latest actor to be cast as the fairy queen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is coming to the Bridge theatre in London etc etc. Here are some of the other top Titanias in whose footsteps she follows
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Frank Cheyne Papé ~ Titania and Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream ~ Tales from Shakspeare (title as published) ~ 1923 ~ via
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (English, 1802-1873) - Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom (1848-1851)
The classic Shakespeare fairy tale in ten minutes, with classical art illustrations. Read fairy tales, bedtime stories, poems for kids and Shakespeare for kids here!
The 1937 Christmas production was directed by Tyrone Guthrie, with sets and costumes by Oliver Messel. Shakespeare's play was presented as an affectionate Victorian pastiche, and included large choruses of muslin-clad fairies flying in on wires. Mendelssohn's famous incidental music was much in evidence, with choreography by Ninette de Valois. Vivien Leigh's Oberon was played by Robert Helpmann, Ralph Richardson played Bottom, and Gordon Miller, Puck. *** Titania's fairy crown, designed by Oliver Messel and worn by Vivien Leigh.
The 1937 Christmas production was directed by Tyrone Guthrie, with sets and costumes by Oliver Messel. Shakespeare's play was presented as an affectionate Victorian pastiche, and included large choruses of muslin-clad fairies flying in on wires. Mendelssohn's famous incidental music was much in evidence, with choreography by Ninette de Valois. Vivien Leigh's Oberon was played by Robert Helpmann, Ralph Richardson played Bottom, and Gordon Miller, Puck. *** Titania's fairy crown, designed by Oliver Messel and worn by Vivien Leigh.
A beautifully illustrated bookplate/engraving from the The King's Treasuries of Literature by JM Dent and Co London in 1924. The Illustration is from A Midsummer Nights Dream. In good condition considering it is 96 years old. No foxing.
“a midsummer night's dream by yoshitaka amano”
Titania, Queen of the Fairies, falls in love with Bottom, whose head has been turned into that of an ass. All ends well, after a farcical play within a play/
Details from Arthur Rackham’s illustration “And now they never meet in grove or green,” (1908) from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Design and diorama by Brooke Weeber; Art direction by Michael Buchino A Midsummer Night’s Dream November 13–December 23 On the Main Stage By William Shakespeare Directed by Penny Metropulos As the royals Theseus and Hippolyta prepare to marry, four young lovers from their Athenian kingdom flee to the forest in the wake of parental disapproval. But in the woodland, these lovers’ lives are complicated upon crossing paths with feuding faerie royalty. As Oberon and Titania bicker over a changeling child, the mischievous Puck and his sprightly accomplices use herbal spells to hilariously complicate the love-mad quartet’s forest idyll. When a group of local rustics rehearsing a play for the Athens wedding also seek the quiet of the forest, the spells and confusions wrought seem unlikely to ever sort themselves out. But this is William Shakespeare at his most magical and most imaginative, and with a little enchantment, as Puck says “all is mended.” www.pcs.org/midsummer
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Gustave Doré (detail)
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Vivien Leigh and Robert Helpmann as Titania and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1937
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Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Old Vic, 1937 (colorized) The 1937 Christmas production was directed by Tyrone Guthrie, with sets and costumes by Oliver Messel. Shakespea…
134 p. 25 cm
Titania, Queen of the Fairies, falls in love with Bottom, whose head has been turned into that of an ass. All ends well, after a farcical play within a play/
134 p. 25 cm
