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 xviii
... actors . Bottom wants to cast himself in every available part , so that he can act not only Pyramus and Thisbe , but also the lion . By taking a roll - call of his actors , calling them ' man by man according to the scrip ' , Peter ...
... actors . Bottom wants to cast himself in every available part , so that he can act not only Pyramus and Thisbe , but also the lion . By taking a roll - call of his actors , calling them ' man by man according to the scrip ' , Peter ...
Page xx
... actors he has almost completely forgotten the episode . He promises ' to discourse wonders ' , but for the moment it is more important to hurry the other actors along to the palace , to present their play . Scene I Act 5 In the ...
... actors he has almost completely forgotten the episode . He promises ' to discourse wonders ' , but for the moment it is more important to hurry the other actors along to the palace , to present their play . Scene I Act 5 In the ...
Page 93
... actors ' entrances and exits ; and above these doors was a balcony useful for a musicians ' gallery or for the acting of scenes ' above ' . Over the stage was a thatched roof , supported on two pillars , forming a canopy which seems to ...
... actors ' entrances and exits ; and above these doors was a balcony useful for a musicians ' gallery or for the acting of scenes ' above ' . Over the stage was a thatched roof , supported on two pillars , forming a canopy which seems to ...
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