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 iv
William Shakespeare Roma Gill. м A great occasion Think of a wedding - a very special wedding , because the bridegroom is a most important person . He is of noble birth , and for many years his family has owned the land for miles around ...
William Shakespeare Roma Gill. м A great occasion Think of a wedding - a very special wedding , because the bridegroom is a most important person . He is of noble birth , and for many years his family has owned the land for miles around ...
Page xi
... wedding - day ; the lovers have already got their relationships in a tangle ; and the workmen have started a project far more adventurous than anything they have undertaken before . Theseus and Hippolyta remain in Athens whilst we ( as ...
... wedding - day ; the lovers have already got their relationships in a tangle ; and the workmen have started a project far more adventurous than anything they have undertaken before . Theseus and Hippolyta remain in Athens whilst we ( as ...
Page xxix
... Wedding . ― The Lion , which causes such a problem to the actors of ' Pyramus and Thisbe ' ( Act 3 , Scene 1 ) , was probably suggested to Shakespeare by a pamphlet published in October 1594. This described a feast in Scotland , where ...
... Wedding . ― The Lion , which causes such a problem to the actors of ' Pyramus and Thisbe ' ( Act 3 , Scene 1 ) , was probably suggested to Shakespeare by a pamphlet published in October 1594. This described a feast in Scotland , where ...
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