A Midsummer Night's Dream: Modern Text with IntroductionAn edition of Shakespeare's comedy, including discussion of its production, themes, patterns, language, and author. An illustrated, abridged verison of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions. |
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Page 36
... Leave you your power to draw , And I shall have no power to follow you . DEM . Do I entice you ? Do I speak you fair ? Or rather do I not in plainest truth Tell you I do not , and I cannot love you ? HEL . And even for that do I love ...
... Leave you your power to draw , And I shall have no power to follow you . DEM . Do I entice you ? Do I speak you fair ? Or rather do I not in plainest truth Tell you I do not , and I cannot love you ? HEL . And even for that do I love ...
Page 37
... leave the city and commit yourself Into the hands of one that loves you not : To trust the opportunity of night And the ill counsel of a desert place With the rich worth of your virginity . HEL . Your virtue is my privilege : for that ...
... leave the city and commit yourself Into the hands of one that loves you not : To trust the opportunity of night And the ill counsel of a desert place With the rich worth of your virginity . HEL . Your virtue is my privilege : for that ...
Page 57
... leave me so ? LYS . go ? HER . Why should he stay whom love does press to What love could press Lysander from my side ? LYS . Lysander's love , that would not let him bide- Fair Helena , who more engilds the night Than all yon fiery oes ...
... leave me so ? LYS . go ? HER . Why should he stay whom love does press to What love could press Lysander from my side ? LYS . Lysander's love , that would not let him bide- Fair Helena , who more engilds the night Than all yon fiery oes ...
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Athenian Athens awake bellows-mender bless briar Cobweb comes CONTEMPORARY SHAKESPEARE Cupid dance dead dear death dote dream Duke Egeus Elizabethan Enter DEMETRIUS Enter LYSANDER Enter OBERON Enter PUCK Exeunt Exit eyes Fair Helena fair Hermia Fairy Queen father fear flower Flute follow FRANCIS FLUTE gentle give glanders gone grace hate hear heart Hippolyta kill ladies lantern lion look lord love's lovers maiden Master Midsummer Night's Dream moon Moonshine mounsieur Mustardseed never Nick Bottom night o'er Peaseblossom Peter Quince PHILOSTRATE play Pyramus pray prologue Pyramus and Thisbe QUIN rehearse roar Robin Goodfellow Robin Starveling SCENE scorn sing sleep SNOUT Snug the joiner sometimes soul speak sport STARVELING sweet tears tell Theseus things Thisbe's TITA Titania TOM SNOUT tongue true truth unto vile vows wake wall wonder wood word