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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... feelings of the audience when he contemplates the situation and remarks , with gentle amusement , ' Lord what fools these mortals be ' ( 3,2,115 ) . A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream begins and X Characters in the play.
... feelings of the audience when he contemplates the situation and remarks , with gentle amusement , ' Lord what fools these mortals be ' ( 3,2,115 ) . A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream begins and X Characters in the play.
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... feelings . die the death : be legally put to death . abjure renounce . question your desires : ask yourself what you really want . Know ... youth : remember that you are young . blood : temperament . Whe'r : whether . aye : ever mew'd ...
... feelings . die the death : be legally put to death . abjure renounce . question your desires : ask yourself what you really want . Know ... youth : remember that you are young . blood : temperament . Whe'r : whether . aye : ever mew'd ...
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... feelings just as we criticize and try to understand the people we know . As the play progresses , we learn to like or dislike , love or hate , them just as though they lived in our world . ― Characters can be studied from the outside ...
... feelings just as we criticize and try to understand the people we know . As the play progresses , we learn to like or dislike , love or hate , them just as though they lived in our world . ― Characters can be studied from the outside ...
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