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Ayesha Dharker as Shakespeare's Titania: 'The forgeries of jealousy' " video

by Dan Susman, Jess Gormley, Pascal Wyse, Emma John, Liese Spencerand Chris Wiegand

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Ayesha Dharker plays Titania, the queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania has quarrelled with Oberon, king of the fairies. As the pair have control over the weather, their argument leads to a vision of nature's chaos. Read the full text for this speechRead more about Shakespea…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:20am on February 1, 2016