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... performed in the theatre . The stage in Elizabethan times had no front curtain and very little scenery . Women's parts were acted by boys , and the plays were put on in the afternoon . But the poetry , songs and dances greatly helped ...
... performed in the theatre . The stage in Elizabethan times had no front curtain and very little scenery . Women's parts were acted by boys , and the plays were put on in the afternoon . But the poetry , songs and dances greatly helped ...
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... performed " . 139 make me ... argument - " make me the subject for such a story ( argument ) " . 140 If ... compel - " If she ( Helena ) cannot persuade ( Lysander , to leave her alone ) I can force him to ( compel ) " . 141 by that ...
... performed " . 139 make me ... argument - " make me the subject for such a story ( argument ) " . 140 If ... compel - " If she ( Helena ) cannot persuade ( Lysander , to leave her alone ) I can force him to ( compel ) " . 141 by that ...
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... performed at the wedding . The tragedy of " Pyramus and Thisby " , which Hippolyta calls " the silliest stuff that ever I heard " , is acted to everybody's amusement . All leave , and Puck enters to sweep the dust from the house ...
... performed at the wedding . The tragedy of " Pyramus and Thisby " , which Hippolyta calls " the silliest stuff that ever I heard " , is acted to everybody's amusement . All leave , and Puck enters to sweep the dust from the house ...
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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