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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... spirits : country oaf of the fairies ( see p . ix ) . heed : care . anon : very soon . passing : extremely . fell : fierce . changeling : see Introduction , p . xiii . jealous : envious . Knight of his train : to be a knight in his ...
... spirits : country oaf of the fairies ( see p . ix ) . heed : care . anon : very soon . passing : extremely . fell : fierce . changeling : see Introduction , p . xiii . jealous : envious . Knight of his train : to be a knight in his ...
Page 39
... spirit of no common rate ; 150 The summer still doth tend upon my state ; And I do love thee ; therefore go with me . I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee , And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep , And sing , while thou on ...
... spirit of no common rate ; 150 The summer still doth tend upon my state ; And I do love thee ; therefore go with me . I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee , And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep , And sing , while thou on ...
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... spirits all , That in cross - ways and floods have burial , Already to their wormy beds are gone , damned because they are the spirits of 385 For fear lest day should look their shames upon : men who committed suicide . The bodies of ...
... spirits all , That in cross - ways and floods have burial , Already to their wormy beds are gone , damned because they are the spirits of 385 For fear lest day should look their shames upon : men who committed suicide . The bodies of ...
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