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... perhaps , is the total effect the play has on our minds ; the shaping of our sympathies in such matters as love , marriage and loyalty with which the play is concerned . For while there is much to laugh at in A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
... perhaps , is the total effect the play has on our minds ; the shaping of our sympathies in such matters as love , marriage and loyalty with which the play is concerned . For while there is much to laugh at in A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
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William Shakespeare J. W. Lever. very much ; perhaps he would have softened his thrusting manner if they had done so . Is Flute aware of this , and does he call him ' sweet bully Bottom ... perhaps he would have softened his thrusting ...
William Shakespeare J. W. Lever. very much ; perhaps he would have softened his thrusting manner if they had done so . Is Flute aware of this , and does he call him ' sweet bully Bottom ... perhaps he would have softened his thrusting ...
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... perhaps you would like nevertheless to dress him as a huntsman here . How would you think Hippolyta should be dressed , e.g. to bring out the fact that she is an Amazon ? Perhaps to reflect her wild origins , even though she is now well ...
... perhaps you would like nevertheless to dress him as a huntsman here . How would you think Hippolyta should be dressed , e.g. to bring out the fact that she is an Amazon ? Perhaps to reflect her wild origins , even though she is now well ...
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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