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 xiii
... become a nun . Theseus speaks in praise of those who ' master so their blood ' and ' undergo such maiden pilgrimage ' - those who chose ( as Queen Elizabeth I did ) to live without husband or children in order to dedicate their lives ...
... become a nun . Theseus speaks in praise of those who ' master so their blood ' and ' undergo such maiden pilgrimage ' - those who chose ( as Queen Elizabeth I did ) to live without husband or children in order to dedicate their lives ...
Page xx
... become aware of what a very great occasion this is for him and the other ' rude mechani- cals ' . At first he stumbles badly over the punctuation - but when he is joined by the other actors he seems to get a little more confidence . In ...
... become aware of what a very great occasion this is for him and the other ' rude mechani- cals ' . At first he stumbles badly over the punctuation - but when he is joined by the other actors he seems to get a little more confidence . In ...
Page 95
... become both an actor and a playwright . We do not know when Shakespeare wrote his first play , and indeed we are not sure of the order in which he wrote his works . If you look on page 97 at the list of his writings and their ...
... become both an actor and a playwright . We do not know when Shakespeare wrote his first play , and indeed we are not sure of the order in which he wrote his works . If you look on page 97 at the list of his writings and their ...
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