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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65-6 rough-cast : mixture of lime and gravel — used for plastering outside walls
of houses. ... 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.
65-6 rough-cast : mixture of lime and gravel — used for plastering outside walls
of houses. ... 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.
Page 73
That stand'st between her father's ground and mine; Thou wall, O wall ! O sweet,
and lovely wall, 1 75 Show me thy chink to blink through with mine eyne. [Snout
holds up his fingers. Thanks, courteous wall : Jove shield thee well for this!
That stand'st between her father's ground and mine; Thou wall, O wall ! O sweet,
and lovely wall, 1 75 Show me thy chink to blink through with mine eyne. [Snout
holds up his fingers. Thanks, courteous wall : Jove shield thee well for this!
Page 74
204 mural: wall. 206 No remedy : there is no help for it. to : as to. 209 The best . . .
kind : the best actors. but : only. 210 amend them : make up for their deficiencies.
213 pass for : be counted as. 214 in : on to the stage. Flute I kiss the wall's hole, ...
204 mural: wall. 206 No remedy : there is no help for it. to : as to. 209 The best . . .
kind : the best actors. but : only. 210 amend them : make up for their deficiencies.
213 pass for : be counted as. 214 in : on to the stage. Flute I kiss the wall's hole, ...
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