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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... present they have rehearsed a play to entertain the guests when the religious ceremonies are completed and the feasting is over . The paragraph you have just read is not intended as a summary of the action of A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
... present they have rehearsed a play to entertain the guests when the religious ceremonies are completed and the feasting is over . The paragraph you have just read is not intended as a summary of the action of A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
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... present the person of Moonshine . Then there is another thing : we must have a wall in the great 60 chamber ; for Pyramus and Thisbe , says the story , did talk through the chink of a wall . Snug You can never bring in a wall . What say ...
... present the person of Moonshine . Then there is another thing : we must have a wall in the great 60 chamber ; for Pyramus and Thisbe , says the story , did talk through the chink of a wall . Snug You can never bring in a wall . What say ...
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... present- Demetrius He should have worn the horns on his head . Theseus He is no crescent , and his horns are invisible within 235 the circumference . Starveling This lantern doth the horned moon present ; Myself the man i ' the moon do ...
... present- Demetrius He should have worn the horns on his head . Theseus He is no crescent , and his horns are invisible within 235 the circumference . Starveling This lantern doth the horned moon present ; Myself the man i ' the moon do ...
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