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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... performance of " Pyramus and Thisbe " ; and after the entertainment is over , when all the human beings have gone to bed , Puck enters to describe the midnight time , with the real moon shining and the fairies “ Following darkness like ...
... performance of " Pyramus and Thisbe " ; and after the entertainment is over , when all the human beings have gone to bed , Puck enters to describe the midnight time , with the real moon shining and the fairies “ Following darkness like ...
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... . recount , tell over , repeat . region , large district , wide area of country . rehearse , to practise acting a play ; rehearsal : a practice performance of a play . relent , become less stern and fixed in one's intentions 194 GLOSSARY.
... . recount , tell over , repeat . region , large district , wide area of country . rehearse , to practise acting a play ; rehearsal : a practice performance of a play . relent , become less stern and fixed in one's intentions 194 GLOSSARY.
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... performance which will necessarily conform with your own experiences of the play . All we can do is to suggest one or two lines of approach to a question such as this one . The most important consideration is this : make sure you write ...
... performance which will necessarily conform with your own experiences of the play . All we can do is to suggest one or two lines of approach to a question such as this one . The most important consideration is this : make sure you write ...
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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