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... comes from their ignorance of how a play can be produced ; how moonlight , for example , can be brought to mind by poetry without any need for a man to come in carrying a lamp and pretending to be the moon . They choose a play with a ...
... comes from their ignorance of how a play can be produced ; how moonlight , for example , can be brought to mind by poetry without any need for a man to come in carrying a lamp and pretending to be the moon . They choose a play with a ...
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... come in and sit down together on the same " bank " of the inner stage , where they , too , fall asleep until Oberon comes forward to call Titania . In Act V , with the inner stage closed off , the main stage will become the palace of ...
... come in and sit down together on the same " bank " of the inner stage , where they , too , fall asleep until Oberon comes forward to call Titania . In Act V , with the inner stage closed off , the main stage will become the palace of ...
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... come out with it straightaway . Instead he warms up his listeners with good - hearted questions and commands before he comes to the point : ' the short and the long is , our play is preferred ' ( 30f . ) . Would it be fair to say he ...
... come out with it straightaway . Instead he warms up his listeners with good - hearted questions and commands before he comes to the point : ' the short and the long is , our play is preferred ' ( 30f . ) . Would it be fair to say he ...
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actors ancient Athenian Athens audience awake beautiful bird BOTTOM as PYRAMUS Bottom's characters Cupid dance Demetrius dote doth Duke Egeus Elizabethan elves Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairies fear flowers FLUTE as THISBE follow four lovers friends gentle give gleek goddess grow hast hate hath head hear heart Helena Hermia imagination kind ladies lion look lord lovers Lysander Lysander's magic maiden marry meaning Midsummer Night's Dream moon MOONSHINE Mustardseed never Nick Bottom night nine men's morris oath Oberon and Titania Peaseblossom person Peter Quince PHILOSTRATE play prologue Puck Pyramus and Thisbe quarrel Queen Quince's rehearse Robin Robin Goodfellow scene scorn Shakespeare shine sing sleep SNOUT SNUG song sound speak speech spirit STARVELING story sweet tears thee Theseus and Hippolyta thing Thisby Thisby's thou tongue troth true vows wakes wall wedding wild wood words young