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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William Shakespeare Roma Gill. The Actors ' story Scene 2 Act I In the first scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream we are introduced to the lovers and their very tense emotional situation . It is a scene of high passions : a father demands ...
William Shakespeare Roma Gill. The Actors ' story Scene 2 Act I In the first scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream we are introduced to the lovers and their very tense emotional situation . It is a scene of high passions : a father demands ...
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... Scene 2 Act 5 Scene I Athens Theseus chooses the evening's entertainment . Peter Quince's company perform their play . The lovers all go to bed , and the fairies come to give a blessing to the marriages . ' of imagination all compact ...
... Scene 2 Act 5 Scene I Athens Theseus chooses the evening's entertainment . Peter Quince's company perform their play . The lovers all go to bed , and the fairies come to give a blessing to the marriages . ' of imagination all compact ...
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William Shakespeare Roma Gill. Nice description. ΙΟ Act I Scene 2 Iwritte prose 2 36 ∞ 8 ΙΟ Act 1 Scene 2 Some Athenian workmen ( their names indicate their trades - see p . vii ) intend to produce a play in honour of their duke's ...
William Shakespeare Roma Gill. Nice description. ΙΟ Act I Scene 2 Iwritte prose 2 36 ∞ 8 ΙΟ Act 1 Scene 2 Some Athenian workmen ( their names indicate their trades - see p . vii ) intend to produce a play in honour of their duke's ...
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