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 viii
... Titania is the fairy with the longest history . The Roman poet Ovid gives this name to Diana , goddess of chastity . Shakespeare's fairy queen is certainly not a goddess , but there are some similarities between Titania and the pagan ...
... Titania is the fairy with the longest history . The Roman poet Ovid gives this name to Diana , goddess of chastity . Shakespeare's fairy queen is certainly not a goddess , but there are some similarities between Titania and the pagan ...
Page xxii
... Titania can easily be expressed in human terms , but the effects of the conflict are supernatural and it can only be resolved by magic . The basis of the quarrel is the refusal of a mother ( in fact , a foster - mother ) to allow her ...
... Titania can easily be expressed in human terms , but the effects of the conflict are supernatural and it can only be resolved by magic . The basis of the quarrel is the refusal of a mother ( in fact , a foster - mother ) to allow her ...
Page 57
... Titania's fairy attendants . Eventually he and Titania also fall asleep , and Oberon has an opportunity to take the spell off Titania's eyes . The fairy characters then leave the human beings , who are woken by the duke's hunting party ...
... Titania's fairy attendants . Eventually he and Titania also fall asleep , and Oberon has an opportunity to take the spell off Titania's eyes . The fairy characters then leave the human beings , who are woken by the duke's hunting party ...
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