A Midsummer Night's Dream- Helen Mirren & Diana Rigg, Act 3 Video

Early work from Helen Mirren, Diana Rigg and Ian Holm. This clip starts with Act 3, scene 2, line 132 (Pelican edition, Helen's "Your vows to her ad me, put in two scales") and ends with Helena and Hermia's exit, line 344 (Hermia's "I am amazed, and know not what to say") David Warner ... Lysander Helen Mirren ... Hermia Diana Rigg ... Helena Michael Jayston ... Demetrius William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - 1968 film Directed by Peter Hall William James Rolfe notes in his edition: line 172: 'Home returned.'... Cf. Sonn. 109. 5: — " That is my home of love; if I have rang'd, Like him that travels I return again." Johnson quotes Prior: — "No matter what beauties I saw in my way, They were but my visits; but thou art my home." line 188: 'Oes.'... Orbs. S. elsewhere uses O for anything round. See LLL v. 2. 45, Hen. V. prol. 13, and A. and C. v. 2. 8I. Steevens quotes John Davies of Hereford's Microcosmos, 1605: "Which silver oes and spangles over-ran"; and The Partheneia Sacra, 1633: "the purple canopy of the earth, powdered over and beset with silver oes," etc. Cf. Bacon, Essay 37 : "And Oes, or Spangs, as they are of no great Cost, so they are of most Glory." line 213: 'Two of the first, like, etc.'.... The allusion is to "the double coats in heraldry that belong to man and wife as one person, but which have but one crest" (Douce). line 282: 'Canker-blossom'....Some understand this to mean the canker-worm, like cankers in ii. 2. 3 ; but Schmidt and Furness ...