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... speak blank verse , especially when they are with older people , but when they are by themselves they often change to " rhyming couplets " , where each pair of lines has a rhyme of its own : Hermia : What love could press Lysander from ...
... speak blank verse , especially when they are with older people , but when they are by themselves they often change to " rhyming couplets " , where each pair of lines has a rhyme of its own : Hermia : What love could press Lysander from ...
Page 117
... 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 the stars ,? Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars ...
... 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 the stars ,? Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars ...
Page 154
... speak 65 to my capacity - " as far as I can understand " . 66 the Prologue - " the actor who is to speak the prologue " . 67 addressed - " ready " . Lines 109-118 : Quince gets all the stops in this speech mixed up , so that the meaning ...
... speak 65 to my capacity - " as far as I can understand " . 66 the Prologue - " the actor who is to speak the prologue " . 67 addressed - " ready " . Lines 109-118 : Quince gets all the stops in this speech mixed up , so that the meaning ...
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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