A Midsummer Night's Dream (In Our Time)
1595 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's most popular works, written c1595 in the last years of Elizabeth I. It is a comedy of love and desire and their many complications as well as their simplicity, and a reflection on society's expectations and limits. It is also a quiet critique of Elizabeth and her vulnerability and on the politics of the ti
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Around 1595
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Taj Mahal built (1632)