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
... turn'd a heaven unto a hell . Lysander Helen , to you our minds we will unfold . Tomorrow night , when Phoebe doth behold 210 Her silver visage in the wat❜ry glass , Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass- A time that lovers ...
... turn'd a heaven unto a hell . Lysander Helen , to you our minds we will unfold . Tomorrow night , when Phoebe doth behold 210 Her silver visage in the wat❜ry glass , Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass- A time that lovers ...
Page 17
... turn the cream into butter . Puck's activities ( when he labours ) inside the churn make the housewife struggle without result ( ' bootless ' ) . barm : froth ( which should always be present on top of good home- brewed ale ) . In Act 3 ...
... turn the cream into butter . Puck's activities ( when he labours ) inside the churn make the housewife struggle without result ( ' bootless ' ) . barm : froth ( which should always be present on top of good home- brewed ale ) . In Act 3 ...
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... turn : for my purpose . 149 no common rate : no ordinary rank . 150 still : always . tend : attend . bird ? Who would give a bird the lie , though he cry ' cuckoo ' never so ? Titania I pray thee , gentle mortal , sing again ! 135 Mine ...
... turn : for my purpose . 149 no common rate : no ordinary rank . 150 still : always . tend : attend . bird ? Who would give a bird the lie , though he cry ' cuckoo ' never so ? Titania I pray thee , gentle mortal , sing again ! 135 Mine ...
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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