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 xii
... lovers . It is also a time for madness . The phrase ' midsummer madness ' is still used to describe a state of mind which is abnormal ( perhaps affected by the heat of the sun - or by fairy power ) but which does not last long . Light ...
... lovers . It is also a time for madness . The phrase ' midsummer madness ' is still used to describe a state of mind which is abnormal ( perhaps affected by the heat of the sun - or by fairy power ) but which does not last long . Light ...
Page xiii
... lovers deliver a dialogue on the subject of love and its problems . We must react to these lines in two ways , simul- taneously . On one level we understand that the characters are consoling each other by remembering that lovers have ...
... lovers deliver a dialogue on the subject of love and its problems . We must react to these lines in two ways , simul- taneously . On one level we understand that the characters are consoling each other by remembering that lovers have ...
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... lovers speak of . Theseus More strange than true . I never may believe These antique fables , nor these fairy toys . Lovers and madmen have such seething brains , 5 Such shaping fantasies , that apprehend More than cool reason ever ...
... lovers speak of . Theseus More strange than true . I never may believe These antique fables , nor these fairy toys . Lovers and madmen have such seething brains , 5 Such shaping fantasies , that apprehend More than cool reason ever ...
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