0:00:06 > 0:00:09Well, hello there. Great to see you!
0:00:09 > 0:00:13I'm William Shakespeare, and as far as I'm concerned,
0:00:13 > 0:00:15you can never have too much of a good thing.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18You see, my play is about to start.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Well, at least it's supposed to be about to start.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25I asked for help to put my play on, but where are they?
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Where are my stage crew?
0:00:27 > 0:00:31- We're a crew!- A pirate crew! - Well, it matters not.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Come in, come in, don't stand on ceremony.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37We're looking for Captain Shakespeare, ma'am - I mean, sir.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Well, I'm William Shakespeare.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Did you just say you're...
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Sir Shakey Pear, the famous pop star?
0:00:45 > 0:00:47HE BEATBOXES
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Oh, I love this one! Turn it up!
0:00:50 > 0:00:52HE MAKES A 'SCRATCHING' SOUND
0:00:54 > 0:00:56I'm William Shakespeare.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59- Cake smear? - Shake-speare!
0:00:59 > 0:01:01But...what's in a name?
0:01:01 > 0:01:03I don't know. I'm Cook - and I AM a cook.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06And I'm Line, and I don't know what I am.
0:01:06 > 0:01:07I should send you packing.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11- Oh, no, we hardly ever get away from the Scarlet Squid.- Very well.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Why don't we start again?
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Well, hello, there, I'm William Shakespeare.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22I'm very, very busy, I'm writing a play here.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25- Writing a play? - Yes, writing a play.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27- Do you know what a play is?- No idea.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30# A play is like a story
0:01:30 > 0:01:32# Look! I'm writing it down here in this book
0:01:32 > 0:01:35# It's a tale of fairies humans and kings
0:01:35 > 0:01:38# And lots of other magical things
0:01:38 > 0:01:40# He's more clever than he might seem
0:01:40 > 0:01:43# And I'm calling it A Midsummer Night's Dream
0:01:43 > 0:01:45# Hey nonny-nonny We're a magical team
0:01:45 > 0:01:49# Hey nonny-no It's Midsummer Night's Dream
0:01:50 > 0:01:53# I've got my play all written down here
0:01:53 > 0:01:56# I could read it to myself but I've a better idea
0:01:56 > 0:01:58# I'll ask my friends to help me out
0:01:58 > 0:02:00# They'll show you what my story's all about
0:02:00 > 0:02:03# They'll all get together and pretend to be
0:02:03 > 0:02:05- # A king or a fairy... - Or a donkey!
0:02:05 > 0:02:08# They have to remember what they've got to say
0:02:08 > 0:02:10# When they do it all together
0:02:10 > 0:02:12# You've got a play!
0:02:13 > 0:02:16# Hey nonny-nonny We're a magical team
0:02:16 > 0:02:20# Hey nonny-no It's Midsummer Night's Dream
0:02:21 > 0:02:23# Here's two people that you might know
0:02:23 > 0:02:26# They're going to be actors in our show
0:02:26 > 0:02:29# Follow me, there's nothing to it
0:02:29 > 0:02:31# This is the theatre
0:02:32 > 0:02:34# Where we're going to do it
0:02:34 > 0:02:36# Now we need some scenery
0:02:36 > 0:02:39# To show us where we're supposed to be
0:02:40 > 0:02:42# Let's dress them up to look the part
0:02:42 > 0:02:46# With some special costumes We can almost start
0:02:46 > 0:02:49# There's lots of people in this play
0:02:49 > 0:02:52# The Duke of Athens is coming this way
0:02:52 > 0:02:54# Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons, too
0:02:54 > 0:02:57# What else do we need?
0:02:57 > 0:02:58# An audience
0:03:00 > 0:03:01# That's you!
0:03:02 > 0:03:04# Hey nonny-nonny We're a magical team
0:03:04 > 0:03:10# Hey nonny-no It's Midsummer Night's Dream! #
0:03:12 > 0:03:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:03:15 > 0:03:18And now our play can begin.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20A Midsummer Night's Dream.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Four happy days bring in another moon,
0:03:39 > 0:03:43but O, methinks, how slow this old moon wanes!
0:03:43 > 0:03:47- Why is he speaking like that? - Well, it's how I write all my plays.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51It's Shakespearean. It's dramatic, unique, poetic.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Four days will quickly steep themselves in night.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59Four nights will quickly dream away the time.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03And then the moon, like to a silver bow new-bent in heaven,
0:04:03 > 0:04:06shall behold the night of our solemnities.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Hippolyta! Oh, I will wed thee in another key -
0:04:09 > 0:04:13with pomp, with triumph and with revelling!
0:04:13 > 0:04:16They're getting married and he's planning a massive party.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Ooh, I love a good party!
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Shh! Quiet backstage!
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Look, here come the Athenians.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- Atheni-ni-nians?- Athenians!
0:04:25 > 0:04:28That means they live in a city called Athens.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Thanks, good Egea. What's the news with thee?
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Oh, full of vexations come I, with complaint against my child.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40My daughter Hermia.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Stand forth, Demetrius.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47This man hath my consent to marry her.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Stand forth, Lysander.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55And, my gracious Duke, this man hath bewitched the bosom of my child.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Ooh, she's as moody as Captain Sinker.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02That's Egea. She wants her daughter, Hermia, to marry Demetrius.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06But Hermia wants to marry HIM, Lysander.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Ooh, that's all a bit of a muddle.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12I beg the ancient privilege of Athens, as she is mine,
0:05:12 > 0:05:14I may choose for her.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15What say you, Hermia?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Be advised, fair maid.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20To you, your mother should be as a queen.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24So is Lysander!
0:05:24 > 0:05:25In himself he is.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27But in this kind, wanting your mother's voice,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30the other must be held the worthier.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32I would my mother looked but with MY eyes.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Rather your eyes must with her judgment look.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39I do entreat your grace to pardon me.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42I know not by what power I am made bold, nor how it may
0:05:42 > 0:05:47concern my modesty in such a presence here to plead my thoughts.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Relent, sweet Hermia!
0:05:50 > 0:05:56And Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my certain right.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59You have her mother's love, Demetrius.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00Let me have Hermia's.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03I must confess that I have heard too much,
0:06:03 > 0:06:06my mind being so full of self-affairs.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Demetrius and Egea, go along.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11I must employ you in some business against our nuptial
0:06:11 > 0:06:12and confer with you.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14With duty and with care we follow thee.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21Keep promise, love, and if you lovest me,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24come steal away with me tomorrow night.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Here comes another Athenian.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29God speed, fair Helena! Whither away?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Call you me fair?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33That fair again unsay.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37Demetrius likes YOUR fair. O happy fair!
0:06:37 > 0:06:41Your eyes are lode-stars and your tongue's sweet air,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44more tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47O, teach me how you look,
0:06:47 > 0:06:51and with what art you sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Helena wears her heart on her sleeve.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56You see, she wants to marry Demetrius.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00But doesn't he want to marry the girl with the angry mum?
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Hermia? That's right! So it's even more of a pickle now.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.
0:07:05 > 0:07:12- O, that your frowns could teach my smiles such skill!- O, take comfort!
0:07:12 > 0:07:14He shall no more see my face.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Lysander...
0:07:16 > 0:07:21..and myself will fly this place.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23And that's our cue.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24Scene change!
0:07:26 > 0:07:28# It's time for a scene change
0:07:28 > 0:07:30# It's time for a scene change
0:07:30 > 0:07:32# It's time for a scene change
0:07:32 > 0:07:34# What's a scene change? #
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Well, let me explain.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38# It's when you change the things on stage
0:07:38 > 0:07:40# To make it look like somewhere new
0:07:40 > 0:07:42# Here's a list upon this page
0:07:42 > 0:07:44# Of things I need from both of you
0:07:44 > 0:07:47# I need a ladder
0:07:47 > 0:07:49# Then a window
0:07:49 > 0:07:50# Then a workbench
0:07:50 > 0:07:52# And a box
0:07:52 > 0:07:54# I need a hammer
0:07:54 > 0:07:55# Then a chair
0:07:55 > 0:07:57# And a saw
0:07:57 > 0:07:58# And a mop! #
0:07:58 > 0:08:00What? Well, it's not on the list.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02# He needs a ladder Yes, indeed
0:08:02 > 0:08:04# Then a window Ooh, that's, ooh
0:08:04 > 0:08:05# And a workbench
0:08:05 > 0:08:07# And a box
0:08:07 > 0:08:09# He needs a hammer Yes, indeed
0:08:09 > 0:08:11# Then a chair For sitting
0:08:11 > 0:08:12# And a saw Saw, saw, saw
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- # And a mop! - No, wait a minute!
0:08:14 > 0:08:17# Pushing, shifting, moving, lifting Pushing, shifting, moving, lifting
0:08:17 > 0:08:19# Right, I need a ladder
0:08:19 > 0:08:21# Then a window
0:08:21 > 0:08:22# Then a workbench
0:08:22 > 0:08:24# And a box
0:08:24 > 0:08:26# I need a hammer
0:08:26 > 0:08:27# Then a chair
0:08:27 > 0:08:29# And a saw
0:08:29 > 0:08:33- # And a mop! # - What? No! No mop!
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Oh!
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Right, come on, off, quickly!
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Is all our company here?
0:08:44 > 0:08:49You were best to call them generally, man by man,
0:08:49 > 0:08:51according to the script.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Here is the scroll of every man's name which is thought fit,
0:08:56 > 0:08:59through all Athens, to play in our interlude
0:08:59 > 0:09:03before the Duke and the Duchess, on his wedding day at night.
0:09:03 > 0:09:08First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats on,
0:09:08 > 0:09:12then read the names of the actors and then grow to a point.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Marry, our play
0:09:15 > 0:09:21is the most unhappy comedy of Pyramus, Thisby,
0:09:21 > 0:09:25and the lion who thought she was a cat.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26Answer as I call you.
0:09:28 > 0:09:29Nick Bottom, the weaver.
0:09:29 > 0:09:34Ready! Name what part I am for, and proceed.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40What is Pyramus?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Is he a kindly man?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44"Ah, hello there!
0:09:44 > 0:09:50"Such kindness coming from me, kindness from above!"
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Or... HE SWISHES
0:09:54 > 0:09:56..a tyrant! Ha-ha!
0:09:56 > 0:10:02A kindly, who most gallant would marry Thisby.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08That will ask for some tears in the true performing of it.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17I will move storms, I will condole in some measure.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19To the rest!
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27- Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. - Here, Peter Quince!
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Flute, you must take Thisby on you.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33Ooh, what is Thisby? A wandering knight?
0:10:33 > 0:10:35It is the lady that Pyramus marries.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Oh, er, nay.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Faith, let me not play a woman.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43I have a beard coming.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45That's all one.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49You shall play it in a mask, and you may speak as small as you will.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52And I may hide MY face!
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Let me play Thisby, too!
0:10:55 > 0:10:59I will speak in a monstrous little voice.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01"Thisne, Thisne."
0:11:01 > 0:11:04"Oh, Pyramus, husband dear!"
0:11:06 > 0:11:10"Thy Thisby, dear." "And lady dear!" Huh?
0:11:10 > 0:11:15No, no, you must play Pyramus, and Flute, you Thisby.
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Well, proceed.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Robin Starveling, the tailor.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Here, Peter Quince!
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Robin Starveling, you must play the moon.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- Tom Snout, the tinker. - Here, Peter Quince.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32You will be a solid wall.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Myself, Thisby's father.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Snug, the joiner? You, the lion's part.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41And I hope here is a play fitted.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Do you have the lion's part written?
0:11:44 > 0:11:48Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
0:11:48 > 0:11:55You may play it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring, eh?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57BOTTOM ROARS
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Let me play the lion, too.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05I will roar, that I will make any man's heart good to hear me.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09I will roar, that I will make the Duke say,
0:12:09 > 0:12:11"Let him roar again, let him roar again!"
0:12:11 > 0:12:15If you should do it too terribly, you would fright
0:12:15 > 0:12:19all the audience from their seats, that they would shriek!
0:12:21 > 0:12:25Well, I will roar for you like a squeaking cat.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Meow, EEK!
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Meow, EEK!
0:12:31 > 0:12:34You must play no part but Pyramus!
0:12:34 > 0:12:38For Pyramus is a sweet-faced man.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Oh, well, I will...!
0:12:43 > 0:12:45..undertake it.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Now, what beard were I best to play it in?
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Why, what you will.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56But masters, here are your parts, and I am to entreat you,
0:12:56 > 0:13:00request you, and desire you,
0:13:00 > 0:13:03to learn them by tomorrow night then meet me in the palace woods.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05I pray you, fail me not.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Wait! Er, Peter Quince!
0:13:09 > 0:13:12SHAKESPEARE: And that's them off to the woods to rehearse,
0:13:12 > 0:13:15and that's our cue. Scene change!
0:13:15 > 0:13:18- BOTH:- # It's time for a scene change... #
0:13:18 > 0:13:21No, no, not every time. Come on! We need to get the woods ready.
0:13:23 > 0:13:29Now, these are no ordinary woods.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33These are magical woods.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35- AUDIENCE:- Ooh!
0:13:36 > 0:13:40You see, fairies live in these woods.
0:13:40 > 0:13:45- Fairies!- They are magical and can vanish into thin air,
0:13:45 > 0:13:48so you have to keep an eye out for them.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Now, our job is done.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51We need to get off stage.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54Oh, and watch out for Puck.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55He's a little bit cheeky.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03# Over hill, over dale
0:14:03 > 0:14:06# Thorough bush, thorough brier
0:14:06 > 0:14:08# Over park, over pale
0:14:08 > 0:14:11# Thorough flood, thorough fire
0:14:11 > 0:14:14# We do wander everywhere
0:14:14 > 0:14:16# Swifter than the moon's sphere
0:14:16 > 0:14:19# And I serve the fairy queen
0:14:19 > 0:14:22# To dew her orbs upon the green
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- # Over hill, over dale - Over park, over pale
0:14:25 > 0:14:29- # Thorough bush, thorough brier - Thorough flood, thorough fire... #
0:14:29 > 0:14:33SHAKESPEARE: Puck, he serves Oberon, the King of the Fairies!
0:14:33 > 0:14:37And Fairy, she serves Titania, the Fairy Queen.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42# Cowslips tall their pensioners be
0:14:42 > 0:14:45# In their gold coats spots you see
0:14:45 > 0:14:48# Those be rubies, fairy favours
0:14:48 > 0:14:51- # In those freckles - Live their savours
0:14:51 > 0:14:54# Over hill, over dale
0:14:54 > 0:14:56# Over park, over pale. #
0:15:02 > 0:15:04The king doth keep his revels here tonight.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Take heed the queen come not within his sight,
0:15:07 > 0:15:10and now they never meet in grove or green,
0:15:10 > 0:15:14by fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen,
0:15:14 > 0:15:19but they...do...square,
0:15:19 > 0:15:21that every elf for fear
0:15:21 > 0:15:24creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30But, room, fairy! Here comes Oberon.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32And here my mistress. Would that he be gone!
0:15:35 > 0:15:37SHAKESPEARE: The King and Queen of the Fairies
0:15:37 > 0:15:38are so angry with each other
0:15:38 > 0:15:42that they can't even stand to be in the same part of the wood.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50What, jealous Oberon!
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Fairies, skip hence.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57I have forsworn his sight and company.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Tarry, rash nettle.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Am not I thy lord?
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Then I must be thy lady.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09How long within this wood intend you stay?
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Perchance till after
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Theseus' wedding-day.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17TITANIA LAUGHS
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Fairies, away!
0:16:19 > 0:16:23We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29My gentle Puck, come hither.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Fetch me that flower,
0:16:33 > 0:16:35the herb I showed thee once.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38The magic of it on sleeping eyelids laid
0:16:38 > 0:16:40will make or man or woman
0:16:40 > 0:16:43madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Fetch me this herb.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50I'll put a girdle round about the earth in 40 minutes.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- COOK:- Where's Puck going? - SHAKESPEARE: Don't worry.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Oberon has sent Puck to fetch a magic flower.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57He won't be long.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Having once this flower,
0:17:00 > 0:17:03I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06and blow the magic of it in her eyes.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09The next thing then she waking looks upon,
0:17:09 > 0:17:13she shall pursue it with the soul of love.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Who comes there?
0:17:15 > 0:17:18I am invisible and will overhear their conference.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20- COOK:- We should totally go and tell the Fairy King
0:17:20 > 0:17:23that two of the Athenenians are in his woods.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- Athenians. - What are they called again?
0:17:25 > 0:17:26That's Demetrius.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29And she's the Athenenian that likes him.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33Helena. And, no, we don't need to do anything. Just watch.
0:17:33 > 0:17:34- DEMETRIUS:- I love thee not,
0:17:34 > 0:17:37therefore pursue me not.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood,
0:17:44 > 0:17:48and here am I, and wode within this wood,
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- because I cannot meet my Hermia. - SHE KISSES
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Hence, get...thee...gone,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57and follow me no more.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Do I entice you?
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Do I speak you fair?
0:18:05 > 0:18:10Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth
0:18:10 > 0:18:17tell you, I will not, no, I cannot marry you?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20And even for that do I love you the more.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Mwah!
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Ugh!
0:18:23 > 0:18:26I am sad when I do look on thee.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Oh, and I am sad when I look not on you.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32I will not stay thy questions. Let me go.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Apollo flies and Daphne holds the chase.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Fare thee well, maiden. Ere he do leave this grove,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy hand.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- We need the flower. - What flower?- The prop!
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- You want us to hop? - Time to stop.- No, the prop!
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- Oh, open a shop! - Need a mop?- Some slop?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Just fetch me the prop.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Chop chop! Not a hop, a mop, a spinning top,
0:18:57 > 0:18:59or a flippety-flippety-flippety-flop.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02The things we use in a play are called props.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04CASH REGISTER DINGS Oh, there it is.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13PUCK: Thanks, Will!
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Hast thou the flower there?
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Welcome, wanderer.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Ay, here it is.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22I pray thee, give it me.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26AUDIENCE GASPS
0:19:28 > 0:19:30I know a bank where the wild thyme blows.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
0:19:33 > 0:19:36lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39And with the magic of this I'll stroke her eyes
0:19:39 > 0:19:41and make her full of friendly fantasies.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51a sweet Athenian maiden is in love with a disdainful youth.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Anoint his eyes but do it when the next thing he espies
0:19:54 > 0:19:56may be the lady.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00Thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07SHAKESPEARE: Oberon wants to help Helena.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09He's sent Puck to use magic on Demetrius
0:20:09 > 0:20:12so then he'll want to marry Helena.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15So, what's Oberon going to use the magic flower for?
0:20:15 > 0:20:19Ah... That's for Queen Titania.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21SHE SIGHS
0:20:28 > 0:20:29(Ah!)
0:20:31 > 0:20:36Come, now a roundel and a fairy song.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Sing me now asleep,
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Then to your offices and let me rest.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50# You spotted snakes with double tongue
0:20:50 > 0:20:52# Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen
0:20:52 > 0:20:56# Newts and blind-worms do no wrong
0:20:56 > 0:21:01# Come not near our fairy queen
0:21:01 > 0:21:03# Philomel, with melody
0:21:03 > 0:21:07# Sing in our sweet lullaby
0:21:07 > 0:21:10# Lu-lu-lulla, lullaby
0:21:10 > 0:21:14# Lu-lu-lulla, lullaby
0:21:14 > 0:21:17# Never harm, nor spell nor charm
0:21:17 > 0:21:20# Come our lovely lady nigh
0:21:22 > 0:21:27# So, good night, with lullaby
0:21:28 > 0:21:31# Lu-lu-lulla, lullaby
0:21:31 > 0:21:35# Lu-lu-lulla, lullaby. #
0:21:38 > 0:21:39Ssh!
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Hence, away!
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Now all is well.
0:21:43 > 0:21:48Ah! My fairy lullaby is excellent for sending people to sleep.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Oi! Wake up!
0:21:53 > 0:21:55But Titania is sleeping.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57It's all part of the story.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Don't you want to know what happens when the magic works?
0:22:00 > 0:22:02- Magic!- Agh! - Oh.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12What thou seest when thou dost wake,
0:22:12 > 0:22:15do it for thy true-love take.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Love and languish for his sake.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
0:22:22 > 0:22:25pard, or boar with bristled hair,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28in thy eye that shall appear
0:22:28 > 0:22:31when thou wakest, it is thy dear.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40- Huh! It is the other Athenininians. - Athenians!
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Yeah, I remember, Liquorice and Sherbert.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Nearly. Lysander and Hermia.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Fair love, is it...
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Oh, you faint with wandering in the wood.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55And, to speak troth, I have forgot our way.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,
0:22:58 > 0:23:00and tarry for the comfort of the day.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Be it so, Lysander.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06Find you out a bed, for I upon this bank will rest my head.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Er... here is my bed?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Good.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Sleep give thee all his rest!
0:23:19 > 0:23:22With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!
0:23:22 > 0:23:24SHE BLOWS A KISS
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Through the forest have I gone.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30But Athenian found I none,
0:23:30 > 0:23:32on whose eyes I might approve
0:23:32 > 0:23:35this flower's force in stirring love.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Night and silence. Who is here?
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Weeds of Athens he doth wear.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44This is he, my master said,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47despised the Athenian maid.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51And here the maiden, sleeping sound,
0:23:51 > 0:23:55on the dank and dirty ground.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59Churl, upon thine eye I throw
0:23:59 > 0:24:03all the power this charm doth owe.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10When thou wakest, let love forbid,
0:24:10 > 0:24:14sleep his seat on thy eyelid.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18So, awake when I am gone for I must now to Oberon.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- BOTH:- Oh, no! He's got the wrong Antheninian!
0:24:21 > 0:24:24I know! Brilliant, isn't it?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Who is here?
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Lysander? On the ground?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Dreaming? Or asleep?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33I see no harm, no wound.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38Lysander, if you sleep, good sir, awake.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45And run through fire will I for thy sweet sake.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Transparent Helena!
0:24:48 > 0:24:53Nature shows art that through thy humour makes me see thy heart.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Where is Demetrius?
0:24:59 > 0:25:04O, how fit a word is that vile name leave this world unhurt.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07Do not say so, Lysander. Say not so.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10What though he love your Hermia?
0:25:10 > 0:25:15Lord, what though? Yet Hermia still loves you, then be content.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Content? With Hermia? Her-Hermia? No.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24I do repent the tedious minutes that I with her have spent.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28Not Hermia but Helena I love.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32THEY LAUGH
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
0:25:35 > 0:25:37When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
0:25:37 > 0:25:40But fare you well, perforce I must confess
0:25:40 > 0:25:44I thought you lord of more true gentleness.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47O, that a lady, of one man refused
0:25:47 > 0:25:50should of another therefore be so confused!
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Shh.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Hermia?
0:25:59 > 0:26:06Sleep thou there, and never mayst thou come Lysander near!
0:26:06 > 0:26:09Oh! Phew!
0:26:10 > 0:26:14All my powers, address your love and might
0:26:14 > 0:26:17to honour Helena and to be her knight!
0:26:17 > 0:26:20HE NEIGHS
0:26:21 > 0:26:25So, Hermia wants to marry Lysander.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Who now wants to marry Helena.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Who wants to marry Demitrius.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33- Who wants to marry Hermia. - Yes! Bedazzling, isn't it?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36This is more of a muddle than when three pirates
0:26:36 > 0:26:39are looking for a jewel in the ship's mess.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42You two! I should write a play just for you!
0:26:42 > 0:26:44You have me in stitches!
0:26:44 > 0:26:49- Sounds painful. - 'Scuse me, please, Mr Shakespeare.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52- It's getting busy in the woods. - Look, it's time for rehearsals.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Are we all met?
0:26:59 > 0:27:05Pat, pat. And what a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07This green plot shall be our stage,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10this hawthorn-brake our dressing room,
0:27:10 > 0:27:13and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17- Peter Quince. - What sayest thou, brainy Bottom?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and...
0:27:20 > 0:27:24- Thisby! - ..Thisby that will never please.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29- Will not the audience be afeard of the lion?- I fear it, I promise you.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31THEY GRUNT
0:27:31 > 0:27:37There is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40and we ought to look to't.
0:27:40 > 0:27:45- Therefore a short prologue must tell she is not a lion.- Nay.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49She herself must speak, saying thus,
0:27:49 > 0:27:54"If you think I come hither as a lion, I am indeed no such thing.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58"I am a lady, as other ladies are."
0:27:58 > 0:28:05- Then tell them plainly she is Snug the joiner.- Well it shall be so.
0:28:05 > 0:28:10- Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?- A calendar.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13- A calendar?- Look to the forecast. - Find out moonshine.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Find out moonshine.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23- Shh! - THEY GASP
0:28:27 > 0:28:31Yes, the moon doth shine that night.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34You can never bring in a wall.
0:28:34 > 0:28:39- What say you, Bottom? - Some man or other must present wall.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42And let him hold his fingers thus.
0:28:42 > 0:28:47And through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50If that will be, then all is well.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Come, every mother's son and daughter,
0:28:53 > 0:28:58and sit down and rehearse your parts. Pyramus, you begin.
0:28:58 > 0:29:02When you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake
0:29:02 > 0:29:04and so every one according to his cue.
0:29:08 > 0:29:16What handsome actors have we swaggering here,
0:29:16 > 0:29:19so near the cradle of the fairy queen?
0:29:20 > 0:29:26Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29THEY CLEAR THEIR THROATS
0:29:32 > 0:29:37Thisby, your perfume... Pah!
0:29:39 > 0:29:41You smell of sweets.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45- You smell SO sweet.- Ah. Ahem...
0:29:47 > 0:29:51Thisby, your perfume... Pah!
0:29:52 > 0:29:56Onions! But hark, a voice!
0:29:58 > 0:30:03Stay thou but here awhile and by and by I will to thee appear.
0:30:05 > 0:30:11- Must I speak now? - Ay, marry, must you.
0:30:11 > 0:30:18HIGH VOICE: O! Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier.
0:30:24 > 0:30:29As true as truest horse that would never tire.
0:30:31 > 0:30:37If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39- Ah!- Argh!
0:30:41 > 0:30:46Bottom's been turned into a donkey! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!
0:30:46 > 0:30:51Monstrous! Oh, strange!
0:30:51 > 0:30:55We are afeared. Pray, masters!
0:30:55 > 0:30:58Fly, masters! Help!
0:30:58 > 0:31:00LAUGHTER
0:31:04 > 0:31:08Why do they run away?
0:31:08 > 0:31:11This is a knavery of them... Hee-haw!
0:31:13 > 0:31:17I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19Hee-haw!
0:31:19 > 0:31:23# Hum dum diddle Fiddle diddle diddle
0:31:23 > 0:31:26# Hum dum diddle dum-dum
0:31:26 > 0:31:29# I'm not afraid
0:31:29 > 0:31:31# They can't scare me
0:31:31 > 0:31:34# It won't do them any good
0:31:34 > 0:31:37# Because I know I'm not afraid
0:31:37 > 0:31:41# There are lots of animals that live in the woods
0:31:41 > 0:31:43# There are
0:31:43 > 0:31:45# Ants and butterflies
0:31:45 > 0:31:47# Worms and caterpillars Mice and squirrels
0:31:47 > 0:31:49# And more by far
0:31:49 > 0:31:54# There's snails and ladybirds Badgers and nightingales
0:31:54 > 0:31:56# And the fairies that live in the wood
0:31:56 > 0:31:58# Tra-la
0:31:58 > 0:32:01# Hum dum diddle Fiddle diddle diddle
0:32:01 > 0:32:03# Hum dum diddle Dum-dum
0:32:03 > 0:32:08# There are foxes and centipedes Robins and parakeets
0:32:08 > 0:32:11# Rabbits and millipedes And more by far
0:32:11 > 0:32:14# There's pigs and elephants Cows and kangaroos
0:32:14 > 0:32:18# And don't forget the fairies that live in the wood
0:32:18 > 0:32:20# Tra-la
0:32:20 > 0:32:23# I'm not afraid I'm feeling good
0:32:23 > 0:32:26# With all these animals here in the wood
0:32:26 > 0:32:29# There are horses and wildebeest
0:32:29 > 0:32:32# Bears and wallabies Tigers and gorillas
0:32:32 > 0:32:34# And more by far
0:32:34 > 0:32:36# Buffalos, dinosaurs Triceratops, tyrannosaurs
0:32:36 > 0:32:39# We hate to bring it up again But think you are forgetting
0:32:39 > 0:32:41# The fairies that live in the wood Tra-la
0:32:41 > 0:32:44# Hum dum diddle Fiddle diddle diddle
0:32:44 > 0:32:46# Hum dum diddle Hee-haw! #
0:32:51 > 0:32:55What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
0:32:56 > 0:33:01I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note.
0:33:06 > 0:33:10So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape.
0:33:10 > 0:33:14And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
0:33:14 > 0:33:20on the first view to say, to share, I love thee.
0:33:20 > 0:33:25Ah! The first thing she seen is that Bottom what turned into a donkey!
0:33:25 > 0:33:29Oberon is going to be so pleased! Hasn't Puck played a great trick?
0:33:29 > 0:33:33Actually, I think this is my favourite part.
0:33:33 > 0:33:37Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40And yet, to say the truth,
0:33:40 > 0:33:44reason and rank keep little company together nowadays.
0:33:44 > 0:33:49The more the pity that some honest men may not call them friends.
0:33:49 > 0:33:53Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56Not so neither. Phhht!
0:33:56 > 0:33:58SHE LAUGHS
0:33:58 > 0:34:01But if I had wit enough to get out of this wood,
0:34:01 > 0:34:03I have enough to serve mine own turn.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05Out of this wood do not desire to go.
0:34:05 > 0:34:09Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12And I do need thee!
0:34:13 > 0:34:19Therefore, go with me. I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,
0:34:19 > 0:34:23and they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep and sing
0:34:23 > 0:34:27while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep.
0:34:27 > 0:34:32Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth!
0:34:32 > 0:34:35And Mustardseed!
0:34:35 > 0:34:37- Ready!- And I.- And I.- And I.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40ALL: Where shall we go?
0:34:40 > 0:34:44Be kind and courteous to this gentleman.
0:34:44 > 0:34:48Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes.
0:34:48 > 0:34:52Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,
0:34:52 > 0:34:58with purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.
0:34:58 > 0:35:03Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
0:35:03 > 0:35:09- Hail, mortal.- Hail.- Hail.- Hail! - I beseech your worship's name.
0:35:09 > 0:35:15- Cobweb.- Peaseblossom.- Moth. - BOTH: Mustardseed.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18Come, wait upon him.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21Lead him to my bower.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24SHE GIGGLES
0:35:29 > 0:35:32King Oberon, welcome.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35I wonder if Titania be awaked
0:35:35 > 0:35:38and what it was that next came in her eye?
0:35:39 > 0:35:42- I hear my messenger. - HE LAUGHS
0:35:42 > 0:35:46My mistress with a donkey is in love.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48THEY LAUGH
0:35:48 > 0:35:51Where in that moment, so it came to pass,
0:35:51 > 0:35:56Titania waked and straightway befriends an ass.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00And hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes
0:36:00 > 0:36:03with the magic, as I did bid thee do?
0:36:03 > 0:36:05I took him sleeping. That is finish'd too.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08And the Athenian woman by his side,
0:36:08 > 0:36:10that, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13Stand close - this is the same Athenian.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16This is the woman, but not this the man.
0:36:16 > 0:36:22- O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?- My Lysander. Where is he?
0:36:22 > 0:36:26Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?
0:36:26 > 0:36:29He is asleep, for aught that I can tell.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32I pray thee, tell me he is well.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36And if I could, what should I get therefore?
0:36:38 > 0:36:41A privilege never to see me more.
0:36:41 > 0:36:45And from thy horrid presence part I so.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50There is no following her in this fierce vein.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Here therefore for a while I will remain.
0:36:54 > 0:36:56What hast thou done?
0:36:56 > 0:36:58Thou hast mistaken quite and laid the love-juice
0:36:58 > 0:37:01on some true-love's sight.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03About the wood go swifter than the wind,
0:37:03 > 0:37:06Helena of Athens look thou find,
0:37:06 > 0:37:09by some illusion see thou bring her here.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12I'll charm his eye against she do appear.
0:37:12 > 0:37:18I go. I go. See how I go. Swifter than an arrow from a Tartar's bow.
0:37:18 > 0:37:22Flower of this purple dye, hit with Cupid's archery
0:37:22 > 0:37:27when thou wakest, if she be by, beg of her for remedy.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37And the youth, mistook by me, pleading for a lover's fee.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40Shall we their fond pageant see?
0:37:40 > 0:37:42Lord, what fools these mortals be!
0:37:42 > 0:37:46Stand aside. The noise they make may cause Demetrius to awake.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51I had no judgment when love in her I saw.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54Nor none in my mind, now you give her o'er.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00O Helena!
0:38:00 > 0:38:06Goddess, maiden, perfect, divine!
0:38:06 > 0:38:11To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy.
0:38:11 > 0:38:18O, how ripe in show thy lips, those ruby cherries, sweetly grow!
0:38:18 > 0:38:20O spite! O fie.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24I see you both are bent to set against me for your merriment.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27If you were civil and knew courtesy,
0:38:27 > 0:38:29you would not do me thus much injury.
0:38:29 > 0:38:33Can you not scorn me, as I know you do,
0:38:33 > 0:38:36but you must join in souls to mock me too?
0:38:36 > 0:38:39If you were men, as men you are in show,
0:38:39 > 0:38:42you would not use a gentle lady so.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?
0:38:52 > 0:38:55Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?
0:38:55 > 0:38:59- What love could press Lysander from my side?- Fair Helena.
0:38:59 > 0:39:05Who more engilds the night than all you fiery oes and eyes of light.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08You know not what you say. It cannot be.
0:39:10 > 0:39:13- Watch this.- Why the knitted brows?
0:39:13 > 0:39:16- LINE:- This muddled mess isn't funny any more.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19- COOK:- Yeah, they're all saying really mean things to each other.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22SHAKESPEARE: Oh, aye. It is indeed a merry mess.
0:39:24 > 0:39:29Now Oberon will make this muddle less.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34This is thy negligence, still thou mistakest.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39Forgive me, King of Shadows, I mistook.
0:39:39 > 0:39:40Oh...
0:39:40 > 0:39:45When they next wake, all this derision
0:39:45 > 0:39:50shall seem a dream and fruitless vision.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02On the ground sleep sound.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05When thou wakest,
0:40:05 > 0:40:08thou takest true delight
0:40:08 > 0:40:12in the sight of thy former lady's eye.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23And all...shall...be...
0:40:28 > 0:40:29..well.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32# It's just like magic
0:40:32 > 0:40:34# Come what may.
0:40:34 > 0:40:39# I can make it happen in my play
0:40:39 > 0:40:41# It's just like magic
0:40:41 > 0:40:44# For goodness' sake
0:40:44 > 0:40:46# It only needs a little give and take.
0:40:48 > 0:40:52# Who would imagine that a Fairy Queen
0:40:52 > 0:40:57# Would want a donkey on her fairy team?
0:40:57 > 0:41:00# It's most unusual and it goes to show
0:41:00 > 0:41:08# That the magic of the theatre makes it so. #
0:41:08 > 0:41:11Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16Fairies, away! And be always away.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20# It's just like magic
0:41:20 > 0:41:21# Come what may
0:41:21 > 0:41:24# I can make it happen
0:41:24 > 0:41:26# In my play
0:41:26 > 0:41:29# It's just like magic
0:41:29 > 0:41:31# For goodness' sake
0:41:31 > 0:41:33# It only needs a little give and take
0:41:35 > 0:41:38# King Oberon was only trying to do some good
0:41:38 > 0:41:44# But Lysander fell for Helena in the wood.
0:41:44 > 0:41:48# The King meant for Demetrius all along
0:41:48 > 0:41:51# But naughty Puck he got the spell all wrong
0:41:51 > 0:41:54# It's just like magic
0:41:54 > 0:41:56# Come what may
0:41:56 > 0:41:59# I can make it happen in my play
0:42:00 > 0:42:05# It's just like magic for goodness' sake
0:42:05 > 0:42:08# It only needs a little give and take. #
0:42:09 > 0:42:14One, two, three, and blow.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16The magic is done.
0:42:21 > 0:42:24Oh, Oberon! What visions have I seen!
0:42:24 > 0:42:29Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31There lies your love.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33Oh!
0:42:33 > 0:42:34Sound, music!
0:42:34 > 0:42:37Come, my queen, take hands with me,
0:42:37 > 0:42:40and rock this ground whereon these sleepers be.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42Now, thou and I are new in amity,
0:42:42 > 0:42:44and will, tomorrow midnight,
0:42:44 > 0:42:48solemnly dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50Fairy king, attend, and mark.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52I do hear the morning lark.
0:42:52 > 0:42:57Come, my lord, and in our flight, tell me how it came this night
0:42:57 > 0:43:01that I sleeping here was found
0:43:01 > 0:43:03with these mortals on the ground.
0:43:05 > 0:43:06Nice job, fairies!
0:43:06 > 0:43:09Yeah, you're so-o-o great. Put it there!
0:43:09 > 0:43:12Put it there!
0:43:12 > 0:43:15Oh, can we go and wake the Atheninians?
0:43:15 > 0:43:20Athenians! And, no, the Duke Thesius is going to do that now.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23But, soft! What folk are these?
0:43:23 > 0:43:27My lord, this is my daughter here asleep.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29And this, Lysander.
0:43:29 > 0:43:30This, Demetrius is.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33And Helena, old Nedar's Helena.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37I wonder at their being here together.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40Trumpets, wake them with your horns.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43TRUMPETS SOUND
0:43:43 > 0:43:44Good morrow, friends.
0:43:45 > 0:43:47I know you two are rival enemies.
0:43:47 > 0:43:51How comes this gentle concord in the world?
0:43:51 > 0:43:54My lord, I shall reply amazedly.
0:43:54 > 0:43:57Half sleep, half waking,
0:43:57 > 0:44:02but, as yet, I swear, I cannot truly say how I came here.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04Enough, enough, my lord! You have enough!
0:44:04 > 0:44:09My lord, the object and the pleasure of mine eye,
0:44:09 > 0:44:11is only Helena.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16Like in sickness, did I refuse this food.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20But, as in health, come to my natural taste,
0:44:20 > 0:44:22now I do wish it,
0:44:22 > 0:44:26love it, care for it,
0:44:26 > 0:44:28and will for evermore be true to it.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31Yay! He wants to marry Helena!
0:44:31 > 0:44:34And she wants to marry Hermia!
0:44:34 > 0:44:36You are fortunately met.
0:44:36 > 0:44:39Of this discourse we more will hear anon.
0:44:39 > 0:44:44Egea, I will overbear your will for in the temple by and by
0:44:44 > 0:44:47with us these couples shall eternally be knit.
0:44:47 > 0:44:51Away with us to Athens, three and three.
0:44:51 > 0:44:54We'll hold a feast in great solemnity.
0:44:54 > 0:44:55Come, Hippolyta.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57LAUGHTER
0:44:57 > 0:44:59He did bid us follow to the temple!
0:44:59 > 0:45:03Let's follow him, and, by the way, let us recount our dreams.
0:45:03 > 0:45:05Oh! They are all getting married!
0:45:05 > 0:45:07Yippee!
0:45:07 > 0:45:10I have had a dream.
0:45:10 > 0:45:14Past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Man is but an ass. Wuh...
0:45:18 > 0:45:19Methought I was a...
0:45:21 > 0:45:22..and methought I had...
0:45:24 > 0:45:27I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream.
0:45:28 > 0:45:32It shall be called Bottom's Dream!
0:45:32 > 0:45:34LAUGHTER
0:45:34 > 0:45:37I have just the beard, a luxuriant one.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40- BOTH:- We pirates are ready to par-tay!!
0:45:43 > 0:45:45Here come the couples full of joy and mirth.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47Come now, let's have a play!
0:45:48 > 0:45:51Ssh! Ssh!
0:45:57 > 0:46:00If we offend, it is with our good will,
0:46:00 > 0:46:06that you should think we come not to offend, but with good will.
0:46:08 > 0:46:12To show our simple skill, that is the true beginning of our end.
0:46:12 > 0:46:16The actors are at hand and by their show,
0:46:16 > 0:46:19you shall know all that you are like to know.
0:46:20 > 0:46:21Our play.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28Here is Thisby and the very strange pet.
0:46:28 > 0:46:29Meow!
0:46:29 > 0:46:32One they conspired to keep a secret.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36In this part of the play it doth befall that I,
0:46:36 > 0:46:41one Snout by name, presenteth a wall.
0:46:43 > 0:46:48This lanthorn doth my horned moon present.
0:46:48 > 0:46:52Myself the man in the moo-oon do seem to be.
0:46:52 > 0:46:56Here, Thisby heard a strange sound.
0:46:56 > 0:46:57But what could it be?
0:46:57 > 0:47:00They searched all around.
0:47:00 > 0:47:04'Twas a rumbling purr. Soft, like a cat.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07And they'd always wanted a pet to pat.
0:47:07 > 0:47:08Meow!
0:47:08 > 0:47:11Through a chink in the wall they saw a tail flick.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14They climbed over that wall ever so quick.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19Ever, ever so quick.
0:47:20 > 0:47:23They followed that purr and found, sure enough,
0:47:23 > 0:47:29a soft lion cub...cat! Resplendent in fluff.
0:47:29 > 0:47:34Pyramus and Thisby brought that cat up, giving it sweet cakes...
0:47:34 > 0:47:35Yum, yum, yum!
0:47:35 > 0:47:37And warm milk to suck.
0:47:37 > 0:47:38Schlup!
0:47:38 > 0:47:42And one night when the moon was full fat,
0:47:42 > 0:47:48she saw, she shone on a lion not a cat.
0:47:49 > 0:47:50The moon said,
0:47:50 > 0:47:54"Just try and roar once and I'm sure you'll find
0:47:54 > 0:47:57"that being a pet is not for your kind".
0:47:58 > 0:48:01The timid lion coughed and opened her mouth.
0:48:01 > 0:48:05You can't believe what great sound came out.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07Roar!
0:48:07 > 0:48:10LOUD ROARING
0:48:10 > 0:48:13She bid her best friends a farewell, fond adieu,
0:48:13 > 0:48:19leapt over the wall for a life that's free and true.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22And that is... The end.
0:48:22 > 0:48:24APPLAUSE
0:48:24 > 0:48:26Well walled, wall!
0:48:26 > 0:48:27Well shone, moon!
0:48:27 > 0:48:30Truly the moon shone with a good grace.
0:48:30 > 0:48:32Would it please you to see the epilogue
0:48:32 > 0:48:36or to hear a Bergomask dance?
0:48:36 > 0:48:38- ALL:- DANCE!
0:48:38 > 0:48:39Come, come!
0:48:41 > 0:48:44MUSIC PLAYS
0:48:58 > 0:49:01JOYFUL MUSIC
0:49:11 > 0:49:16If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended.
0:49:16 > 0:49:22That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear.
0:49:22 > 0:49:27And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream.
0:49:27 > 0:49:28Children, do not reprehend.
0:49:30 > 0:49:32If you pardon, we will mend.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34So, goodnight unto you all.
0:49:34 > 0:49:37Give us your hands, if we be friends,
0:49:37 > 0:49:39and Robin shall restore amends.
0:49:43 > 0:49:46# Hey, nonny-nonny! We're a magical team
0:49:46 > 0:49:51# Hey, nonny-no, it's Midsummer Night's Dream
0:49:51 > 0:49:55# Now we come to the end of our show, so thank you everyone
0:49:55 > 0:50:00# We hope you enjoyed our magical play and now what's done is done
0:50:01 > 0:50:03# Everything came out as planned
0:50:03 > 0:50:06# It was all right in the end
0:50:06 > 0:50:08# Out into a brave new world
0:50:08 > 0:50:11# I hope you'll stay my friends
0:50:11 > 0:50:13# Hey, nonny-nonny we're a magical team
0:50:13 > 0:50:20# Hey, nonny-no it's Midsummer Night's Dream. #
0:50:23 > 0:50:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE