🌿🍄🌿Puck or Robin Goodfellow is a trickster and mischievous Fae sprite from English folklore, famously featured in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Caliban (from Shakespeare's The Tempest), 1914 https://t.co/E5EIXuOIFI

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shout out to for real for real

midsummer nights dream really gotta be up there with my favourite of Shakespeare's plays i think.

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Sarah Siddons (née Kemble), born in 1755, was the most famous tragic actress of the eighteenth century. Her portrayal of Lady Macbeth was generally considered to be her finest role, but apparently her own favourite was the part of Queen Catherine in Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

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It may forever remain a mystery why some Aipes lost themselves to particular stories. This specimen has been chasing characters through Shakespeare's Gardens for centuries.

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gm! ✨

'Sonnet 18' will be listed on 7/3 9am est/9pm hkt under new collection Reminisce for .2 eth.🍊

'Sonnet 18' is the first and summer special of the collection Reminisce. Inspired by William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.

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Interestingly, the airy spirit Ariel has male pronouns in the script for Shakespeare's "Tempest," and was initially viewed as male. However, Ariel was usually played by women from the mid-1600s to about 1930. Since then both men and women have played the spirit.

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in 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII, the Globe Theatre burnt down after some of the stuff shot out of a small cannon, for a sound effect, lodged in the thatch. Read more about the life of Shakespeare for free on the ODNB: https://t.co/B46p0vY6s7

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🎭#OTD in 29 June 1613, in burned to the ground during a performance of "Henry VIII", when ceremonial cannon used in the production misfired, setting the thatch aflame.

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A set of wonderful paintings from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, a magnificent play providing hints into the mysterious and beautiful fairy kingdom.



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Midsummer Magic: this week's is that of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with enigmatic paintings by Edwin Landseer (1851), Joseph Noel Paton (1849), Richard Dadd (1854-8) & John Simmons (1870).

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the connection of FL!P that and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (my attempt at a theory thread)

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In honour of June being this is dedicated to representations of characters Rosalind and Celia in Shakespeare's play ‘As You Like It’ and how artists chose to represent the emotions these women feel for each other.

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Ian Doescher — author of William Shakespeare's Star Wars, Shakespeare's Avengers & Deadpool Does Shakespeare — has joined SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED. He's writing a horror story based on Twelfth Night

Sign up for an email alert when the Kickstarter launches https://t.co/X2x1IEbdw6👑

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franz marc
caliban, 1914
(from shakespeare's the tempest)

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A new season, all about magic and literature! We talk William Shakespeare's Tempest, from women-wizards from Algiers to royal demonology. Caliban's Moth, Ariel's Lantern and AK nearly dies in a spiegel tent.

https://t.co/QKeHkH2Q9P

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Hermia and Lysander, detail, 1870.
John Simmons.
Watercolour painting, using gouache.
Based on a scene from Act II, scene II of William Shakespeare's comedy play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
"The details were executed with an astonishing clarity."
Christopher Wood.

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💗TITANIA💗

Titania is the largest satellite of Uranus. Scientists named it after the queen of the fairies from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.

Link: https://t.co/HAYD4VRMk9

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The HandleBards: Twelfth Night 🚲 Wellesley Woodlands, 8 June. Cycling theatre company return to Aldershot with a riotous outdoor production of Shakespeare's famous comedy! https://t.co/qlTbceZKuw

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Good night, dear magical Twitter folk. Tonight I will leave you with "Mislead Night-wanderers, Laughing" by Arthur Rackham. He created this for an edition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1908.

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