Director:	Elijah Moshinsky
Recurring Role:	Robert Lindsay (Lysander)
Guest Star:	Geoffrey Lumsden (Egeus),  Brian Glover (Bottom),  John Fowler (Flute),  Geoffrey Palmer (Quince),  Phil Daniels (Puck),  Don Estelle (Starveling),  Nat Jackley (Snout),  Ray Mort (Snug),  Bruce Savage (Peaseblossom),  Massimo Mezzofanti (Cobweb),  Timothy Cross (Mustardseed),  Tania Bennett (Fairy),  Lee MacDonald (Fairy),  Louise Mason (Fairy),  Alexandra Segal (Fairy),  Cherith Mellor (Helena),  Nicky Henson (Demetrius),  Estelle Kohler (Hippolyta),  Nigel Davenport (Theseus),  Hugh Quarshie (Philostrate),  Helen Mirren (Titania),  Pippa Guard (Hermia),  Peter McEnery (Oberon),  Dominic Martelli (Moth)

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Oberon:
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.

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Lysander: The course of true love never did run smooth. (edit)
Theseus: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt,
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Helena:
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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