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 xxvi
... imagination amend them . Shakespeare felt that actors have no substance or identity in themselves . They exist in order to lend their bodies and their talents ... imagination all compact ' Bottom xxvii A calendar 'of imagination all compact'
... imagination amend them . Shakespeare felt that actors have no substance or identity in themselves . They exist in order to lend their bodies and their talents ... imagination all compact ' Bottom xxvii A calendar 'of imagination all compact'
Page xxvii
... imagination will improve - amend ' — the mechanicals ' performance , and Hippolita points out that ' It must be your imagination then , and not theirs ' . At the beginning of Act 5 Theseus explains how the poet's imagination works ...
... imagination will improve - amend ' — the mechanicals ' performance , and Hippolita points out that ' It must be your imagination then , and not theirs ' . At the beginning of Act 5 Theseus explains how the poet's imagination works ...
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... imagination all compact . One sees more devils than vast hell can hold : 10 That is the madman ; the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt ; The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven ...
... imagination all compact . One sees more devils than vast hell can hold : 10 That is the madman ; the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt ; The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven ...
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