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The article discusses the representation of gender issues and versions of technological surveillance in the 2016 BBC adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. David Kerr). It also argues that the film's contemporary visuality emphasises the carnivalesque elements, and hides the darker social issues from viewers and critics.
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The film discussed is relatively recent, rarely discussed in critical literature, although it is innovative in several respects, and deals with many issues that contemporary societies are concerned about, including gender equality and gender representations, and the role of technology and surveillence in social control.
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I was surprised to see how little critical attention this film received, although in many ways it is more innovative and potentially more relevant to our own age than many better-known adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Kinga Földváry
Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem
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This page is a summary of: Trendy or topical? Sexual politics and panopticism in the 2016 BBC Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cahiers Élisabéthains A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, April 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0184767819835553.
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