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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Page 106
... speech ( tongue ) , to answer you impatiently " . 162 counterfeit - " imitation of a woman " ; i.e. deceiver . 163 puppet , model of a person , used in a kind of play where such little models act the parts of human beings . 164 that way ...
... speech ( tongue ) , to answer you impatiently " . 162 counterfeit - " imitation of a woman " ; i.e. deceiver . 163 puppet , model of a person , used in a kind of play where such little models act the parts of human beings . 164 that way ...
Page 154
... speech - making ( eloquence ) " . 64 tongue - tied freely " . - " unable to speak 65 to my capacity - " as far as I ... speech mixed up , so that the meaning sounds quite different from what was intended . For example , lines 115-16 ...
... speech - making ( eloquence ) " . 64 tongue - tied freely " . - " unable to speak 65 to my capacity - " as far as I ... speech mixed up , so that the meaning sounds quite different from what was intended . For example , lines 115-16 ...
Page 194
... speech introducing a play ; ( 2 ) the person making this speech . promontory , point of high land stretching out into the sea . prove , turn out to be , become . provender , food ( hay , etc. ) for horses and donkeys . proverb , a wise ...
... speech introducing a play ; ( 2 ) the person making this speech . promontory , point of high land stretching out into the sea . prove , turn out to be , become . provender , food ( hay , etc. ) for horses and donkeys . proverb , a wise ...
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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