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Imagery in Julie Taymor's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream

Julie's Taymor's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' was an adaption of Shakespeare's play. This film had many formal elements, however, one of it's biggest elements that contributed a lot to this work was it's imagery. There were two main setting, the court and the forest; Taymor did an excellent job of clearly showing the changes between scenes and setting with the imagery she used. Our first setting the audience was introduced to was the court at 9:05. The court's setting didn't have much of anything. All it had were some doors behind, normal lighting (bright enough for the audience to see what was going on but not too bright), and a small group of characters up on stage with plain formal clothes. This imagery was all done to symbolize how the characters were experiencing, they were expected to act orderly and traditionally as the court is. Then when the setting changed to the forest at 28:24, the lights were dimmed and a bright blue light was shining onto the stage. A large group of characters poured onto the stage with weird outfits and with face covered with makeup to represent the fairies. All of a sudden at 29:17, all the fairies began to run at the coming of Oberon and Titania. A white sheet was shown up above and was used to show lighting. Later, the audience finally see Oberon and Titania who are covered in makeup from head to toe and are wearing very fancy and cray looking clothes. This imagery showed how much disorder and change was going on in the forest. All this imagery Taymor used was more than enough to shown the clear distinction between the court and the forest.

Work Cited Taymor, Julie. “Taymor's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.” Sign in to Your Account, https://viewing-taymors-a-midsummer-nights-dream?module_item_id=4953832. Bevington, David. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" [Introduction]. The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4th ed, edited by David Bevington, 1997, pp. 147-150.