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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... Sing me now asleep ; Then to your offices , and let me rest . The Fairies sing You spotted snakes with double tongue , Thorny hedgehogs , be not seen ; Newts and blind - worms , do no wrong , Come not near our fairy queen . Philomel ...
... Sing me now asleep ; Then to your offices , and let me rest . The Fairies sing You spotted snakes with double tongue , Thorny hedgehogs , be not seen ; Newts and blind - worms , do no wrong , Come not near our fairy queen . Philomel ...
Page 39
... sing again ! 135 Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note ; So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape ; And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me On the first view to say , to swear , I love thee . Bottom Methinks , mistress , you ...
... sing again ! 135 Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note ; So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape ; And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me On the first view to say , to swear , I love thee . Bottom Methinks , mistress , you ...
Page 64
... sing it in the latter end of a play before the duke : peradventure , to make it the more gracious , I shall sing it at her death . [ Exit 3 4 5 5-6 8 9 II 12 13 14 Act 4 Scene 2 The Athenian workmen are lamenting the loss of Bottom when ...
... sing it in the latter end of a play before the duke : peradventure , to make it the more gracious , I shall sing it at her death . [ Exit 3 4 5 5-6 8 9 II 12 13 14 Act 4 Scene 2 The Athenian workmen are lamenting the loss of Bottom when ...
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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