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Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Composer Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Date 1826; incidental music in 1842 (Romantic) Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Genre Concert overture Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Performing Forces Orchestra Overture…

Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people? he says their dreams are weird and they are lovers and lunatics Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisbe rather than the other entertainments?…

hippolyta marrying theseus to bring peace to the amazons; once witnesses Hercules hunting hounds in action theseus marrying Hippolyta; ruler of Athens. finds the 4 lovers in the woods and invites them to their wedding so they may also get…

The setting of the play is in the Palace of Theseus in the city of Athens, Greece. Describe the setting of the play giving all relevant details In ancient Greece, if someone comes along and conquers land, they will be…

Your lordship is right welcome back to denmark (O) I humbly thank you sir… Dost know this waterfly [dost thou know this waterfly?(Ham)] No, my good lord (Hor) Thy state is more gracious for tis a vice to know him.…

Horatio Close friend to Hamlet; last nobleman in Denmark; studied with the prince at the university in Wittenberg;loyal and helpful to Hamlet;After Hamlet’s death, Horatio remains alive to tell Hamlet’s story Marcellus and Bernardo The officers who first see the…

Explain Hamlet’s remarks to Horatio about fate. Hamlet said that if something was supposed to happen now, that it would. He also said that readiness is everything. Fate (in forms of the pirate’s intervention and his possession of the ring)…

usurp to seize and take control without authority. usurp antonyms give, keep, leave usurp synonyms takeover, grab, swipe harbinger a herald, one who foretells the arrival of a thing. harbinger antonyms aftermath, epilogue, sequel, effect harbinger synonyms omen, precursor, messenger…

Despite their protests, Hamlet does go where the ghost beckons and there learns of his father’s death. Whom does the ghost charge with the murder? Claudius. How does the ghost say the murder was committed? He was sleeping in his…

Spies on his kids Polonius No words at first all. Does something crazy to get response out of polonius Ophelia Thinks denied access to Ophelia is what is making him mad Polonius are spies for their own benefits Reynaldo and…