Putting Shakespeare on film can be troublesome because the playwright's ringing verbal resonances tend to lose some of their force in a medium that emphasizes sight over sound. Putting a Shakespeare film on television is doubly troublesome, for the small screen reduces the principals to tiny figures who are all but lost in panoramic scenes. Despite the difficulties, England's Royal Shakespeare Company, under Director Peter Hall, has turned A Midsummer Night's Dream into a richly textured color film that comes across as TV at its best. Millions of Americans will have a...
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