Plays of Shakespeare: Selected and Prepared for Use in SchoolsGinn, Heath & Company, 1882 - English drama |
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... Bottom and his fellows evidently came fresh from Nature as she had passed under the Poet's eye . The linking of these clowns with the ancient tragic tale of Pyramus and Thisbe , so as to draw the latter within the region of modern farce ...
... Bottom and his fellows evidently came fresh from Nature as she had passed under the Poet's eye . The linking of these clowns with the ancient tragic tale of Pyramus and Thisbe , so as to draw the latter within the region of modern farce ...
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... Bottom's transformation is merely the translation of a metaphor in its literal sense ; but in his behaviour during the tender homage of the Fairy Queen we have an amusing proof how much the consciousness of his new head - dress ...
... Bottom's transformation is merely the translation of a metaphor in its literal sense ; but in his behaviour during the tender homage of the Fairy Queen we have an amusing proof how much the consciousness of his new head - dress ...
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... BOTTOM , a Weaver , FLUTE , a Bellows - mender . SNOUT , a Tinker . OBERON , King of the Fairies . TITANIA , Queen of the Fairies . PUCK , or ROBIN - GOODFELLOW , Fairy . PEAS - BLOSSOM , COBWEB , a Fairies . MOTH , MUSTARD - SEED ...
... BOTTOM , a Weaver , FLUTE , a Bellows - mender . SNOUT , a Tinker . OBERON , King of the Fairies . TITANIA , Queen of the Fairies . PUCK , or ROBIN - GOODFELLOW , Fairy . PEAS - BLOSSOM , COBWEB , a Fairies . MOTH , MUSTARD - SEED ...
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... BOTTOM , FLUTE , SNOUT , and STARVELING . Quin . Is all our company here ? Bot . You were best to call them generally , man by man , ac- cording to the scrip.1 Quin . Here is the scroll of every man's name , which is thought fit ...
... BOTTOM , FLUTE , SNOUT , and STARVELING . Quin . Is all our company here ? Bot . You were best to call them generally , man by man , ac- cording to the scrip.1 Quin . Here is the scroll of every man's name , which is thought fit ...
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... Bottom the weaver . Bot . Ready : Name what part I am for , and proceed . Quin . You , Nick Bottom , are set down for Pyramus . Bot . What is Pyramus ? a lover , or a tyrant ? Quin . A lover , that kills himself most gallantly for love ...
... Bottom the weaver . Bot . Ready : Name what part I am for , and proceed . Quin . You , Nick Bottom , are set down for Pyramus . Bot . What is Pyramus ? a lover , or a tyrant ? Quin . A lover , that kills himself most gallantly for love ...
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art thou Athenian Athens awake beard Bottom buds chide child Cobweb dance dead dear Demetrius dote doth Duke Dyce Egeus Enter PUCK Exeunt Exit eyes Fair Helena fairy fear flower FLUTE gentle give gone grace hast thou hate hath hear heart Hermia Hippolyta hounds Knight's Tale lady lantern lion look lord love thee lovers Lysander Master meaning merry Methinks MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM monsieur Moon Moonshine Mustard-seed never Nick Bottom night o'er Oberon old copies passage Peas-blossom Peter Quince PHILOSTRATE play Poet Poet's pray prologue Pyramus and Thisbe Queen Quin QUINCE's roar Robin Goodfellow Robin Starveling SCENE scorn sense Shakespeare shine sing sleep Snout Snug speak sport STARVELING stay stol'n sweet tears tell Theseus things Thisbe's thou hast Thou shalt thou wak'st Tita Titania tongue true verse vile voice wake wall wonder wood word