A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn) of the score were used in Woody Allen's 1982 film "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy". Many of the tunes in the score were used by John Stepan Zamecnik for the dogfight music in the film Wings in 1927. A distinctive portion of the tune was used in the second episode of the ABC TV documentary "Keating: The Interviews", where Kerry O'Brien chronicles the life and career of legendary Australian politician Paul Keating. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn) At two separate times, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream". First in 1826, near the start of
A Midsummer Night's Dream Oberon is a "horrid brute". Towards the end of the 19th century, Georg Brandes (1895–6) and Frederick S. Boas (1896) were the last major additions to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" criticism. Brandes' approach to anticipates later psychological readings, seeing Oberon's magic as symbolic and "typifying the sorcery of the erotic imagination". Brandes felt that in the play, Shakespeare looks inward at the "domain of the unconscious". Boas eschews the play as ethical treatise or psychological study and instead takes a more historicist and literal approach. To Boas the play is, despite its fantastical and exotic trappings, "essentially English and Elizabethan".