A Midsummer Night's DreamNotes on the story, language, construction, and background accompany the text the comedy about romantic entanglements among humans and fairies. |
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... ground . [ Exit LYSANDER Enter DEMETRIUS DEMETRIUS Lysander , speak again ; Thou runaway , thou coward , art thou fled ? Speak ! In some bush ? Where dost thou hide thy head ? PUCK ( as LYSANder ) Thou coward , 238 art thou bragging to ...
... ground . [ Exit LYSANDER Enter DEMETRIUS DEMETRIUS Lysander , speak again ; Thou runaway , thou coward , art thou fled ? Speak ! In some bush ? Where dost thou hide thy head ? PUCK ( as LYSANder ) Thou coward , 238 art thou bragging to ...
Page 130
... ground- " make the ground shake " . 44 new in amity - " made friends again " . amity : friendship . 45 solemnly- " with full ceremony " . 46 triumphantly - " in state " . 47 to - " with " . 48 attend and mark - " listen and take notice ...
... ground- " make the ground shake " . 44 new in amity - " made friends again " . amity : friendship . 45 solemnly- " with full ceremony " . 46 triumphantly - " in state " . 47 to - " with " . 48 attend and mark - " listen and take notice ...
Page 200
... ground is too wet for ploughing ; ( v ) - -'wasted all his hard work ' ; his ploughing has produced no crops ; - ' turned rotten before it was old enough to grow a beard ' ; the corn rotted with the wet before it ripened into a head ...
... ground is too wet for ploughing ; ( v ) - -'wasted all his hard work ' ; his ploughing has produced no crops ; - ' turned rotten before it was old enough to grow a beard ' ; the corn rotted with the wet before it ripened into a head ...
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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