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Starting this today for the Shakespeare prompt in my Catching Up On The Classics reading challenge.
#bookspinbingo

This is my first Shakespeare since college (Romeo and Juliet) I enjoyed the tagged more. I needed my book club buddies to understand the ending, and in turn appreciate it more. I‘m so excited; I may get a bingo this month 🤞🏾

I had a lot of fun reading this play with my book club. It‘s not my favorite Shakespeare play, but approaching it with fresh eyes, and hearing other peoples perspectives who were reading it for the first time, definitely made it even more enjoyable.

Having not read any Shakespeare in years, it was easy to fall in love with his mastery of words, puns, and jokes all over again. It reminded me why I love and chose to study literature 🥰📚

Filled with spells and fairies and young couples who love (or detest but eventually get tricked into loving) one another. I liked the dialogues and the circumstances around Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena best. Vile old Bottom getting turned into an ass also adds humor to the play. I found the final play put on by the miscellaneous characters to be quite terrible. Overall, filled with witty, funny exchanges but not totally up there for me.

Seeing a few Dreams this summer and the first one was at my very own Globe - one of the most entertaining things I‘ve seen in my life, I don‘t think I‘ve ever laughed that much at Shakespeare. Totally surreal, amazing diverse cast, massive papier-mâché hats and bubble guns and a brass band and fairies coming out of bins... I‘ve honestly never ‘got‘ AMND before but I finally enjoyed it SO SO much.

Titania and Bottom by Charles Heath the elder. This is my favorite act of the play! #shakespearereadalong @merelybookish

“How low am I, thou painted maypole?
speak; How low am I?
I am not yet so low
But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.”
#shakespearereadalong @merelybookish

Oberon and Titania and their verbal battles! Arguing over a little boy. What‘s the emoji for shaking my head?#shakespearereadalong @merelybookish

I‘m about to get started for the #ShakespeareReadalong. This was technically a secondhand book, but I don‘t think it‘s former owner ever even opened it, which illustrates one of the main benefits of shopping at the bookstore near university campus! 😆

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows...”

Ballet is about to start.

Happy September, everyone! 🍂🦊 This month‘s illustration in my Arthur Rackham calendar is a scene from Act II Scene I of A Midsummer Night‘s Dream.

All the confusion, squabbling and magic spells in this fun story!
#HeyJune #lovemedo

I liked this one. Fairies and Shakespeare and puns and a guy named Bottom who gets turned into an ass. Havoc and mayhem ensue, but it all works out in the end.

But Demetrius is the worst, and Helena should have gotten a spine and run far, far away.

Some role research for an upcoming production. Absolutely thrilled to be bringing this classic work to life this summer🧚🏼‍♀️✨ #helena #midsummer #shakespeare #williamshakespeare

Love this play. Can still remember passages from when I performed it in primary school.

A mid-performance shot at Pop Up Globe theatre in Auckland. “Groundlings” (standing room on the floor) tickets were $10. I was in a comfy box with a great view. Actors did a lot of impromptu, including drinking glasses of wine offered by audience members. The show was hilarious.

I saw A Midsummer Night‘s Dream, with an all-male cast, performed partly in Shakespearean English and partly in Maori language, at the Pop Up Globe in Auckland. So much fun!

A Midsummer Night‘s Dream by: William Shakespeare #AMidsummerNightsDream #WilliamShakespeare #book #books #bookrecommendation #bookrecommendations #bookreport #bookreview #bookriot #read #booktattoo #booktree #bookyourself @Unicornio_UwUr #bookunion #bookutopia #bookunicorn #bookunicorns #bookish #bookishfeature #bookishfeatures #booksoflitsy #bookobsessed #bookobsession #bookpholic #bookoholics #bookporn #bookperson #bookpeople #bookpassion 💛💛

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Something I've been wanting to read for a while but just haven't got around to reading it until now.
Definitely worth watching alongside a DVD version as you understand the jokes a lot more and it's fun to see how people play around with it, but a really good play.
Full of so many comedic lines and characters, definitely made me laugh more than once!