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 xxi
... performance ? Snout explains far too much : perhaps he could have been accepted as ' Wall ' when he first entered , but by the time he has finished speaking he is unmistakably Snout the tinker . The same is true of Snug and Starveling ...
... performance ? Snout explains far too much : perhaps he could have been accepted as ' Wall ' when he first entered , but by the time he has finished speaking he is unmistakably Snout the tinker . The same is true of Snug and Starveling ...
Page xxvi
... performance — to share in the dramatist's imagination ; and to bring along their own imaginations to supply anything that is lacking in the production . So when Oberon says ' Ill met by moonlight , proud Titania ' , the audience must be ...
... performance — to share in the dramatist's imagination ; and to bring along their own imaginations to supply anything that is lacking in the production . So when Oberon says ' Ill met by moonlight , proud Titania ' , the audience must be ...
Page 93
... performance of plays . This was the Theatre , the first purpose - built playhouse in England . Other playhouses followed ( including Shakespeare's own theatre , the Globe ) ; and the English drama reached new heights of eloquence ...
... performance of plays . This was the Theatre , the first purpose - built playhouse in England . Other playhouses followed ( including Shakespeare's own theatre , the Globe ) ; and the English drama reached new heights of eloquence ...
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