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  2. Mechanical (character) - Wikipedia

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    The mechanicals are six characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream who perform the play-within-a-play Pyramus and Thisbe. They are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens , looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party ...

  3. Peter Quince - Wikipedia

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    Peter Quince is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.He is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding.

  4. Southland Tales - Wikipedia

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    Part Three: The Mechanicals (January 31, 2007, ISBN 0-936211-77-6) They have been collected together into one single volume: Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga (360 pages, Graphitti Designs, ISBN 0-936211-80-6) The titles of the parts in the film are: [31] Part Four: Temptation Waits; Part Five: Memory Gospel; Part Six: Wave of Mutilation

  5. Tom Snout - Wikipedia

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    Tom Snout (background) playing Wall in a Riverside Shakespeare Company production. Tom Snout is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. [1] He is a tinker, and one of the "mechanicals" of Athens, amateur players in Pyramus and Thisbe, a play within the play.

  6. Robin Starveling - Wikipedia

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    Robin Starveling as Moonshine (second from right), with thorn-bush and dog, in a 1907 student production. Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596), one of the Rude Mechanicals of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe.

  7. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn) - Wikipedia

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    Puck's famous valedictory speech "If we shadows have offended" is accompanied, as day breaks, by the four chords first heard at the very beginning of the overture, bringing the work full circle and to a fitting close. The music was dedicated to a gifted amateur musician friend of Mendelssohn's, Dr Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz. [9]

  8. Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The album is a collaboration with Marius de Vries, who produced Wainwright's previous studio albums Want One (2003) and Want Two (2004), [1] and mixed his 2007 album Release the Stars. The concept originated when director Robert Wilson asked Wainwright to compose music for his 2009 production "Shakespeare's Sonnets", which was first staged at ...

  9. Midsummer Mechanicals - Wikipedia

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    The story, a sequel to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, follows the titular troupe of actors, The Mechanicals, attempting to put on a new play at the court of Duke Theseus. [1] [2] The work is aimed towards families and children aged 5-12, making this the first full-scale family-oriented production put on by Shakespeare's Globe ...