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Results: "The Play's The Thing" Part 2

Published on 04/16/2021
By: Harriet56
2289
Theater/Ballet
If you know where this quote comes from, you may enjoy this series of surveys, based on the works of William Shakespeare. This famous quote is from Hamlet. And just like this quote, there is much more to Shakespeare's works than you might think.
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If you ask most people which Shakespeare play is the most popular, you will probably hear Hamlet, Macbeth or Romeo And Juliet, but according to which play has been performed the most, the answer is A Midsummer Night's Dream —accounting for over 7% of all productions. It may be that for Shakespeare, the story is simple and the humour is universal, even for those not familiar with Shakespeare's prose. It's an easy play for schools to stage, not violent or dark, and appeals to everyone. Interestingly enough, in the United States and Canada, the second most popular play (based on performances) is Romeo And Juliet, while overseas it is not even in the top 10. There the second most popular play is Hamlet. Have you ever read, seen or been in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo And Juliet?
If you ask most people which Shakespeare play is the most popular, you will probably hear Hamlet, Macbeth or Romeo And Juliet, but according to which play has been performed the most, the answer is A Midsummer Night's Dream —accounting for over 7% of all productions. It may be that for Shakespeare, the story is simple and the humour is universal, even for those not familiar with Shakespeare's prose. It's an easy play for schools to stage, not violent or dark, and appeals to everyone. Interestingly enough, in the United States and Canada, the second most popular play (based on performances) is Romeo And Juliet, while overseas it is not even in the top 10. There the second most popular play is Hamlet. Have you ever read, seen or been in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo And Juliet?
Have seen a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
16%
369 votes
Have been in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
5%
114 votes
Have seen a production of Romeo And Juliet
22%
502 votes
Have been in a production of Romeo And Juliet
3%
63 votes
Neither
31%
712 votes
Not familiar with either of these plays
19%
441 votes
Read A Midsummer Night's Dream
21%
491 votes
Read Romeo And Juliet
34%
776 votes
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A Midsummer Night's Dream has often been referred to as Romeo and Juliet turned inside out--a tragedy turned farcical. Both are based on the story of "Pyramus and Thisbe." In one, Ovid's story is treated as a melodrama (in Romeo and Juliet) and in another, it is fodder for comedy (in A Midsummer Night's Dream). Here are a few other fun facts about A Midsummer Night's Dream -- how many did you know?
A Midsummer Night's Dream has often been referred to as Romeo and Juliet turned inside out--a tragedy turned farcical. Both are based on the story of
The first known piece of criticism of the play was an entry in the diary of Samuel Pepys. Pepys, who saw A Midsummer Night's Dream performed in 1662, recorded in his famous diary that the play was 'the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life' (though he adds that he liked the dancing, as well as the 'handsome women' he saw, 'which was all my pleasure').
8%
173 votes
The director of the 1988 film Die Hard, John McTiernan, has stated that he was inspired by this play to set the action of his film over the course of one night.
6%
140 votes
However, A Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't, in fact, take place in a single night. The idea that McTiernan was inspired by the play's one-night time-frame is ironic given that the action of A Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't occur over a single night, but rather four or five
7%
158 votes
Three of the moons of the planet Uranus are named after characters from the play. Orbiting Uranus are Puck, Oberon, and Titania, all characters in the play
6%
144 votes
In 1911, Herbert Beerbohm Tree staged a celebrated production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which included live rabbits on stage.
2%
35 votes
None
81%
1861 votes
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Romeo And Juliet has had almost as many adaptions as Hamlet, forty so far. The most famous ones are of course, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaption with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, West Side Story (1961) Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Romeo + Juliet (1996) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Here is some other trivia facts about this famous Shakespeare play -- which of these do you already know?
Romeo And Juliet has had almost as many adaptions as Hamlet, forty so far. The most famous ones are of course, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaption with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, West Side Story (1961) Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Romeo + Juliet (1996) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Here is some other trivia facts about this famous Shakespeare play -- which of these do you already know?
We know that Romeo and Juliet is about young love – the 'pair of star-cross'd lovers', who belong to rival families in Verona – but what is odd about Shakespeare's play is how young he makes Juliet. In his play she is only 13, while Romeo is 16.
29%
669 votes
The first reference to 'Montagues and Capulets' is in the poetry of Dante, not Shakespeare.
6%
142 votes
Perhaps the most famous line in the play is spoken by Juliet: 'Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?' Of course, 'wherefore' doesn't mean 'where' – it means 'why'. And it still doesn't make sense.
21%
484 votes
In the stage directions for Romeo and Juliet and the famous 'balcony scene' (Act 2 Scene 2), Shakespeare writes that Juliet appears at a 'window', but he doesn't mention a balcony. It would have been difficult for him to do so, since Elizabethan England didn't know what a 'balcony' was.
8%
179 votes
In Verona, Italy, Romeo and Juliet has become a whole tourist industry, as tourists flock to see the famous balcony where Juliet stood, but the house there actually doesn't have any relation to the story. Shakespeare set many of his plays in invented worlds that were on the border of truth and fiction.
9%
215 votes
None
58%
1334 votes
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Which of these famous quotes from either play do you like?
Which of these famous quotes from either play do you like?
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite." (R&J)
12%
269 votes
"Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it." (R&J)
19%
434 votes
"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow." (R&J)
27%
610 votes
"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." (R&J)
9%
196 votes
"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change." (R&J)
9%
217 votes
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." (AMND)
10%
222 votes
"The course of true love never did run smooth." (AMND)
17%
383 votes
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (AMND)
17%
399 votes
"My soul is in the sky." (AMND)
5%
111 votes
"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends." (AMND)
4%
99 votes
All
5%
110 votes
None
46%
1060 votes
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