By all accounts Britten was not amused, but wasn't above a bit of parodying himself, as this Donizetti-esque passage in A Midsummer Night's Dream demonstrates.
What Middle Class Dreams demonstrates is just how important race, and racism, was in shaping many voters' political attitudes.
Even though you may not know how you are going to get it or make it happen, the mere act of dreaming demonstrates an act of faith.
On Monday, Mr. Holder's dream for demonstrating the power of the American court system crumbled when he announced that the trial would take place not in New York City or anywhere in the United States but before a military commission at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp.
But it's not that his heart isn't in the right place – as his Militant Feminist Dream amply demonstrates.
Even the sheriff, brilliantly underplayed by Hackman, has his reasons, as the effortful building of his dream house demonstrates.
Yet the scale of Dragon Age: Inquisition, the focus of 80 Days and the heartbreak of The Sailor's Dream all demonstrate that interactive storytelling is not a wasted pursuit.
Self-improvement is on every hand: there are programmes that urge you to clear out the backlog of junk in the spare room; that alert you to the risks of moving abroad, chasing a false dream; that demonstrate how marriages survive and adapt.
He told BBC Breakfast about driving some of the finest sports cars in the world on the tracks of Italy for 'Italian Dream' and demonstrates the 'spinnaker' face he got while driving a car without a windscreen.
This second annual effort of the Classical Theatre of Harlem to position itself as the "Uptown Shakespeare in the Park" -- after last year's guffaw-inducing "Midsummer Night's Dream" -- demonstrates the company's ability to tackle tragedy while making Shakespeare completely modern and relevant.
"How do we prevent that?" Getting more LGBTQ+ people into the commissioning editor seat is the overriding answer, and the documentary Dream Boat demonstrates how that can work for everyone.
