A Midsummer Night's DreamAn exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages. |
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Page 10
... Bottom , Flute , Snout , and Starveling Quince Is all our company here ? Bottom You were best to call them generally , man by man , according to the scrip . Quince Here is the scroll of every man's name , which is 5 thought fit ...
... Bottom , Flute , Snout , and Starveling Quince Is all our company here ? Bottom You were best to call them generally , man by man , according to the scrip . Quince Here is the scroll of every man's name , which is 5 thought fit ...
Page 34
... Bottom's song , later in this scene , lines 112ff ) . defect : Bottom means ' effect ' . it were ... life : my life would be in danger ( he would have to ask for pity ) . Starveling I believe we must leave the killing out , when all is ...
... Bottom's song , later in this scene , lines 112ff ) . defect : Bottom means ' effect ' . it were ... life : my life would be in danger ( he would have to ask for pity ) . Starveling I believe we must leave the killing out , when all is ...
Page 57
... Bottom wakes up and tries to recall the dream he has enjoyed . amiable : loveable . coy : pet . Mounsieur : Bottom's mispronunciation of the French ' Monsieur ' . Scene I The wood ; Lysander , Demetrius , Hermia and Helena are sleeping ...
... Bottom wakes up and tries to recall the dream he has enjoyed . amiable : loveable . coy : pet . Mounsieur : Bottom's mispronunciation of the French ' Monsieur ' . Scene I The wood ; Lysander , Demetrius , Hermia and Helena are sleeping ...
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actors Athenian Athens Attendants audience bless Bottom characters classical mythology Cobweb comedy Cupid dance dead dear death Demetrius dotes doth duke Egeus Elizabethans Enter Puck Exeunt Exit eyes eyne fair fairy father fear flower Flute forest four lovers friends gentle give gone grace hast hate hath hear heart Helena Helena Lysander Hermia hounds human imagination lady lion look lord love-juice love's lovers lulla Lysander Lysander's marry Methinks Methought Midsummer Night's Dream modesty moon Moonshine mortals Mounsieur Mustardseed never Nick Bottom night o'er Oberon Oberon and Titania Peaseblossom performed Peter Quince Philostrate play pray Pyramus and Thisbe quarrel queen rehearse roar Robin Goodfellow Robin Starveling scorn Shakespeare sleep Snout Snug speak sport Starveling stay stol'n sweet tell thee Theseus and Hippolyta things Thisbe's thou Titania tongue true love virgin voice vows wakes wall wedding William Shakespeare wood words workmen