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 12
... Flute , the bellows - mender ? Flute Here , Peter Quince . Quince 40 Flute , you must take Thisbe on you . Flute What is Thisbe ? A wandering knight ? Quince It is the lady that Pyramus must love . Flute Nay , faith , let me not play a ...
... Flute , the bellows - mender ? Flute Here , Peter Quince . Quince 40 Flute , you must take Thisbe on you . Flute What is Thisbe ? A wandering knight ? Quince It is the lady that Pyramus must love . Flute Nay , faith , let me not play a ...
Page 36
... Flute's mispronunciation of juvenile ' ( = young man ) . ' Jew ' is needed only to rhyme with ' hue ' . Ninus : king of Nineveh . Flute comically mispronounces the name in line 94 ; a ' ninny ' is a fool . fair handsome . were : would ...
... Flute's mispronunciation of juvenile ' ( = young man ) . ' Jew ' is needed only to rhyme with ' hue ' . Ninus : king of Nineveh . Flute comically mispronounces the name in line 94 ; a ' ninny ' is a fool . fair handsome . were : would ...
Page 73
... Flute Enter Flute O wall , full often hast thou heard my moans , For parting my fair Pyramus and me : My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones , Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee . Bottom I see a voice : now will I to the ...
... Flute Enter Flute O wall , full often hast thou heard my moans , For parting my fair Pyramus and me : My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones , Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee . Bottom I see a voice : now will I to the ...
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