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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... wedding ) . 10 The pale ... pomp . Melancholy , imagined as a pale - faced guest , is not wanted at the wedding cere- mony ( pomp ) . II I wooed thee with my sword - " I won you as my wife by fighting against you " . 12 in another key ...
... wedding ) . 10 The pale ... pomp . Melancholy , imagined as a pale - faced guest , is not wanted at the wedding cere- mony ( pomp ) . II I wooed thee with my sword - " I won you as my wife by fighting against you " . 12 in another key ...
Page 146
... 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 . Oberon and Titania ...
... 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 . Oberon and Titania ...
Page 193
... wedding ; ( adj . ) of a wedding . nymph , spirit in the form of a beautiful maiden ; flattering word for a girl . O oak , a common kind of tree in northern countries ; its fruit is the acorn ( g.v. ) . oath , a statement one swears to ...
... wedding ; ( adj . ) of a wedding . nymph , spirit in the form of a beautiful maiden ; flattering word for a girl . O oak , a common kind of tree in northern countries ; its fruit is the acorn ( g.v. ) . oath , a statement one swears to ...
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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