Why should you read 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'? - Iseult Gillespie

By the light of the moon, a group sneaks into the woods, where they take mind-altering substances, switch it up romantically and brush up against creatures from another dimension. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” sees Shakespeare play with the boundary between illusion and reality - and dramatize the possibility that life is but a dream. Iseult Gillespie shares what makes this play a timeless classic.

Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by WOW-HOW Studio.

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[uhjyssm]

I love how the characters have big
arms yet very tiny hands.

[Questn]

These videos are five minute mind trips. Thank you!

[roborai]

shakespeare has one damn big imagination and its scaring me

[ilikebreathingtoo]

And then you remember that Shakespearean female characters during that time where played by men...

[stopstaring]

I just now realized how heavily this inspired the plot of Barbie a Fairy Secret

[TinyMedicine]

I love this new series of Why should you read series! Book reviews of a new kind! Kudos for the new approach and Long Live the books!!!

[tusharkaul]

I played Puck in the school play when I was in 5th grade. I fell in love with this play and the character ever since.

[kezriehayudini]

Wow... Ted ed never fails to amaze me... HONESTLY YOUR ANIMATIONS ARE IMORPROVING BY EVERY VIDEO AND ALSO VERY UNIQUE... GOOD JOB GUYS

[meghamitra]

This is the play I cannot forget ever..I cannot the dreamy feelings I had while i reading it for the first time..then I was a child..but still today whenever I feel low or deppressed I always open up this book..reading it in the soothing candlelight will definitely heal you always😊😊

Thanks a lot Ted Ed..for choosing this play and for sharing the magic of this play with the world..you guys are amazing😊😊

[Vulppix]

Wow, the animation is absolutely amazing in this video. The time when Shakespeare was controlling the characters and with the eyes reddened by the flower’s juice was amazing

[ehehrez]

I just finished reading the play in English class today, crazy you guys just uploaded it today

[wow-howstudio]

Thank you very much for giving a possibility of working together on such an amazing animation project :)

[unclepatrick]

I seen versions of Midsummer Night Dream that are high Comedy. I seen a version that was much darker with the Fairies being almost Horror Monsters. It a wonderful play and every different performance has a different take on it. This make each time you see a different group do the play, it feels like it a new story.

[sivawright]

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

[foreign_physics]

TED Ed, please do for
"Much Ado About Nothing"
"As You Like It"
"The Merchant of Venice".

[zarinaa]

THANK YOU for having the characters be dressed as Ancient Greeks! Everyone dressed them in Elizabethan costumes and up. They always forget that it takes place in Ancient Greece.

[Exist]

This is amazing food for thought, thank you! Not to mention the engrossing animation

[cyzhouhk]

I remember reading this for English Literature a few years ago. Just today we were discussing about our school play, and we wanted to do Shakespeare. Macbeth was off limits as the Y11s are doing it for school and they would kill us, so I suggested A Midsummer Nights Dream. Feels so apt since it's one of the most hilarious Shakespeare plays. Although Taming of the Shrew is also hilarious.

[marwapranata]

My favorite part is still the one where the characters roasting the troupes play.

I believe that's Shakespeare way to poke fun at his audience who comments or roasted his play when they watched it

[tamaki_souh]

The story telling and of course the animation is simply magically beautiful..i couldn't take my eyes away even for a second the whole time..