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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... writers today will mention characters in Shakespeare or Dickens , even though such writers may not be British or speak English as their own language . Since A Midsummer Night's Dream is supposed to take place in ancient Athens , the ...
... writers today will mention characters in Shakespeare or Dickens , even though such writers may not be British or speak English as their own language . Since A Midsummer Night's Dream is supposed to take place in ancient Athens , the ...
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... writing describes these as having a definite shape " . II and gives to airy nothing ... name - " and gives to an imaginary thing ( airy nothing : a nothing floating in air ) a dwelling place ( local habita- tion ) and a name " . ( Thus ...
... writing describes these as having a definite shape " . II and gives to airy nothing ... name - " and gives to an imaginary thing ( airy nothing : a nothing floating in air ) a dwelling place ( local habita- tion ) and a name " . ( Thus ...
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