Visualizing Shakespeare: Image Gallery

Visualizing Shakespeare: Image Gallery

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A still from the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle.

WARNER BROS/THE KOBAL COLLECTION

British book illustration is usually said to have enjoyed a "Golden Age" during the first decades of the twentieth century. Arthur Rackham produced seventy-four images for his illustrated A Midsummer Night's Dream (1908), including this one. Bottom is as astonished by the attentions of Titania as he is by his transformation with the head of an ass.

Kharbine-Tapabor/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY

Michael Hoffman casts Calista Flockhart as Helena, Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, and Rupert Everett as Oberon. The role of Bottom, played by Kevin Kline, is expanded with the addition of a browbeating wife (Heather Parisi).

20TH CENTURY FOX/THE KOBAL COLLECTION/TURSI, MARIO