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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... present , and its ideas are of the kind that would be thought of at such a time . Since the ancient poetry of Greece and Rome was well known to educated persons , and since Shakespeare himself loved it , the story is supposed to happen ...
... present , and its ideas are of the kind that would be thought of at such a time . Since the ancient poetry of Greece and Rome was well known to educated persons , and since Shakespeare himself loved it , the story is supposed to happen ...
Page 67
... present , the person of moonshine . Then there is another thing ; we must have a wall so in the great chamber ; for Pyramus and Thisbe , says the story , did talk through the chink of a wall . SNOUT You can never bring in a wall . What ...
... present , the person of moonshine . Then there is another thing ; we must have a wall so in the great chamber ; for Pyramus and Thisbe , says the story , did talk through the chink of a wall . SNOUT You can never bring in a wall . What ...
Page 166
... present - " This lantern represents the moon with its horns ( i.e. the pointed tips of the moon when it is not full ) " . " Horned " is suggested by the old spelling " lanthorn " -lantern made of horn ( pronounced " lant- horn " ) . 133 ...
... present - " This lantern represents the moon with its horns ( i.e. the pointed tips of the moon when it is not full ) " . " Horned " is suggested by the old spelling " lanthorn " -lantern made of horn ( pronounced " lant- horn " ) . 133 ...
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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