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 14
... hold . . . strings : The meaning of this phrase is unknown , but Bottom appears to be saying that the actors must keep their promises ( ' hold ' ) , or else be disgraced . beard , your orange - tawny beard , your purple - in- grain ...
... hold . . . strings : The meaning of this phrase is unknown , but Bottom appears to be saying that the actors must keep their promises ( ' hold ' ) , or else be disgraced . beard , your orange - tawny beard , your purple - in- grain ...
Page 35
... hold his fingers thus , and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisbe whisper . Quince If that may be , then all is well . Come sit down , 70 every mother's son , and rehearse your parts . Pyramus , you begin . When you have spoken ...
... hold his fingers thus , and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisbe whisper . Quince If that may be , then all is well . Come sit down , 70 every mother's son , and rehearse your parts . Pyramus , you begin . When you have spoken ...
Page 48
... hold ... up : keep up the game . carried : performed . chronicled : recorded as history . argument : object of ridicule . I scorn you not : it seems that you scorn me . Helena Have you not set Lysander , as in scorn , To follow me and ...
... hold ... up : keep up the game . carried : performed . chronicled : recorded as history . argument : object of ridicule . I scorn you not : it seems that you scorn me . Helena Have you not set Lysander , as in scorn , To follow me and ...
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actors Athenian Athens Attendants audience bless Bottom characters classical mythology Cobweb comedy Cupid dance dead dear death Demetrius dotes doth duke Egeus Elizabethans Enter Puck Exeunt Exit eyes eyne fair fairy father fear flower Flute forest four lovers friends gentle give gone grace hast hate hath hear heart Helena Helena Lysander Hermia hounds human imagination lady lion look lord love-juice love's lovers lulla Lysander Lysander's marry Methinks Methought Midsummer Night's Dream modesty moon Moonshine mortals Mounsieur Mustardseed never Nick Bottom night o'er Oberon Oberon and Titania Peaseblossom performed Peter Quince Philostrate play pray Pyramus and Thisbe quarrel queen rehearse roar Robin Goodfellow Robin Starveling scorn Shakespeare sleep Snout Snug speak sport Starveling stay stol'n sweet tell thee Theseus and Hippolyta things Thisbe's thou Titania tongue true love virgin voice vows wakes wall wedding William Shakespeare wood words workmen