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 viii
... mortals or to annoy them . The beliefs vary from one nation to another ; within the British Isles ideas about fairies vary from county to county . Often one small village cannot agree with its nearest neighbour about the invisible ...
... mortals or to annoy them . The beliefs vary from one nation to another ; within the British Isles ideas about fairies vary from county to county . Often one small village cannot agree with its nearest neighbour about the invisible ...
Page ix
... mortals . A particularly unpleasant trait of these ' old style ' fairies was their habit of stealing beautiful human children from their cradles , and substituting weak or ugly fairy children . The babies who were exchanged in this way ...
... mortals . A particularly unpleasant trait of these ' old style ' fairies was their habit of stealing beautiful human children from their cradles , and substituting weak or ugly fairy children . The babies who were exchanged in this way ...
Page x
... mortals who spoke politely to him : kind to lovers ; and always ready to help the housewife who tried to keep her home clean and tidy . Shakespeare refers to many of the qualities that tradition attributes to the puck , and he places ...
... mortals who spoke politely to him : kind to lovers ; and always ready to help the housewife who tried to keep her home clean and tidy . Shakespeare refers to many of the qualities that tradition attributes to the puck , and he places ...
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