Room: Hayes Auditorium
Contact Phone: 972-8255
Library Branch: Main Library
Type of Event: Books & Reading,Movies,Special Programs & Events
Age: Teens,Adults

In honor of the Shakespeare’s First Folio exhibit, we’re showing vintage Shakespeare films in August and September.

Like most of Shakespeare’s comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream contains several seemingly unrelated plot lines, all tied together by a single unifying event, in this instance the impending wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta.

One thread concerns the mistaken-identity romances of four young Athenians; another involves a group of “rude mechanicals” who plan to stage a production of “Pyramus and Thisbe” in honor of the wedding; and a third plot strand is motivated by the mischievous misbehavior of invisible fairies Oberon, Titania, and Puck. … 

Considered a brave failure at the time of its first release, on a purely visual level, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the more satisfying Shakespearean cinemadaptations of Hollywood’s golden age. (Source:  http://library.movlic.com/  Author: Hal Erickson.  (1935, not rated)

Starring James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Jean Muir, and Anita Louise.

SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO
August 20-September 21
Boise State University’s Yanke Family Research Park, Arts & Humanities Institute Gallery
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In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s 1616 death, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. has arranged the ultimate book tour. First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare is stopping in each state for a limited time.

Without the Folio, we would very likely have only half of Shakespeare’s works—it contains 36 plays and one of only two likenesses of Shakespeare considered “authentic. “ Shakespeare’s First Folio will be in Boise August 20-September 21, hosted by Boise State University.

The Library is pleased to partner with BSU and other local organizations in supporting the exhibit. Visit the Albertsons Library First Folio! website at http://archives.boisestate.edu/shakespeare2016/ for details about the exhibit and related events.