A Tiny, Subtle Slice of A Midsummer Night's Dream in The Office

"Gettysburg." By Robert Padnick. Perf. Rainn Wilson, Oscar Nuñez, and Alyssa Larsen. Dir. Jeffrey Blitz. The Office. Season 8, episode 8. NBC. 17 November 2011. DVD. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 2018.

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In the episode of The Office entitled "Gettysburg," many of the worker in the office take a trip to . . . well, Gettysburg.

While there, Dwight Schrute annoys everyone by insisting that there was a more northerly battle of the Civil War than Gettysburg, namely, The Battle of Schrute Farms.

Eventually, Oscar finds an archivist who shows them part of a documentary about that battle. Let's take a look.

You didn't hear any Shakespeare mentioned in that scene, but if you were watching carefully, your eye would have been caught by the image that heads this post.

What other play could they be performing than Midsummer Night's Dream? One actor has wings and a magic flower; another has the ears of a donkey on his head.

It's subtle, but there you have one more among many Shakespeare allusions (for which, q.v. and q.v. and q.v.) in The Office.

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Links: The Episode at IMDB.

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