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 8
... sight of each other . deep : dark . May Demetrius love you as much as you love him . How happy some people can be— much happier than others . o'er : over other some other people . Helena None but your beauty : would that fault were mine ...
... sight of each other . deep : dark . May Demetrius love you as much as you love him . How happy some people can be— much happier than others . o'er : over other some other people . Helena None but your beauty : would that fault were mine ...
Page 9
... sight of him ) when he goes to the woods and when he returns . Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can transpose to form and dignity . Love looks not with the eyes , but with the mind , 235 And therefore is wing'd Cupid ...
... sight of him ) when he goes to the woods and when he returns . Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can transpose to form and dignity . Love looks not with the eyes , but with the mind , 235 And therefore is wing'd Cupid ...
Page 42
... sight : at the sight of him . at our stamp : when I gave the signal ( by stamping on the ground ) . He : one man . lost with : conquered by . senseless things : inanimate objects . wrong : injury . from ... catch : everything steals ...
... sight : at the sight of him . at our stamp : when I gave the signal ( by stamping on the ground ) . He : one man . lost with : conquered by . senseless things : inanimate objects . wrong : injury . from ... catch : everything steals ...
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actors Athenian Athens Attendants audience bless Bottom characters classical mythology Cobweb comedy Cupid dance dead dear death Demetrius dotes doth duke Egeus Elizabethans Enter Puck Exeunt Exit eyes eyne fair fairy father fear flower Flute forest four lovers friends gentle give gone grace hast hate hath hear heart Helena Helena Lysander Hermia hounds human imagination lady lion look lord love-juice love's lovers lulla Lysander Lysander's marry Methinks Methought Midsummer Night's Dream modesty moon Moonshine mortals Mounsieur Mustardseed never Nick Bottom night o'er Oberon Oberon and Titania Peaseblossom performed Peter Quince Philostrate play pray Pyramus and Thisbe quarrel queen rehearse roar Robin Goodfellow Robin Starveling scorn Shakespeare sleep Snout Snug speak sport Starveling stay stol'n sweet tell thee Theseus and Hippolyta things Thisbe's thou Titania tongue true love virgin voice vows wakes wall wedding William Shakespeare wood words workmen