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 7
... perhaps Hermia is referring to the girdle worn by Venus . 173-4 When Dido , Queen of Carthage , saw her lover , the Trojan Aeneas , sailing away ( ' under sail ' ) from her , she threw herself on a funeral pyre and was burned to death ...
... perhaps Hermia is referring to the girdle worn by Venus . 173-4 When Dido , Queen of Carthage , saw her lover , the Trojan Aeneas , sailing away ( ' under sail ' ) from her , she threw herself on a funeral pyre and was burned to death ...
Page 35
... have we swaggering here , 75 So near the cradle of the fairy queen ? What , a play toward ? I'll be an auditor- An actor too , perhaps , if I see cause . 79 odious : hateful . savours : perfumes . Botter Act 3 Scene I 35.
... have we swaggering here , 75 So near the cradle of the fairy queen ? What , a play toward ? I'll be an auditor- An actor too , perhaps , if I see cause . 79 odious : hateful . savours : perfumes . Botter Act 3 Scene I 35.
Page 76
... perhaps the Lion looked more like a cat shaking a mouse . Hippolyta I am aweary of this moon : would he would change ! Theseus It appears , by his small light of discretion , that he is 245 in the wane ; but yet , in courtesy , in all ...
... perhaps the Lion looked more like a cat shaking a mouse . Hippolyta I am aweary of this moon : would he would change ! Theseus It appears , by his small light of discretion , that he is 245 in the wane ; but yet , in courtesy , in all ...
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