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The interval from 1589 to 1591 is filled up by Love's Labour's Lost , The Two
Gentlemen of Verona , Comedy of Errors , and Titus Andronicus . In 1593 , 1594
are placed Richard 1 But in the play the new moon is on Theseus ' wedding day ,
that ...
The interval from 1589 to 1591 is filled up by Love's Labour's Lost , The Two
Gentlemen of Verona , Comedy of Errors , and Titus Andronicus . In 1593 , 1594
are placed Richard 1 But in the play the new moon is on Theseus ' wedding day ,
that ...
Page xxiii
So that the morning of the third day is the ist of May , and the last two days of April
are lost altogether . Titania's reference to the middle - summer's spring ' must
therefore be to the summer of the preceding year . It is a curious fact , on which ...
So that the morning of the third day is the ist of May , and the last two days of April
are lost altogether . Titania's reference to the middle - summer's spring ' must
therefore be to the summer of the preceding year . It is a curious fact , on which ...
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... which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud That they have
overborne their continents : The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain , The
ploughman lost his sweat , and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd ...
... which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud That they have
overborne their continents : The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain , The
ploughman lost his sweat , and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd ...
Page 30
Their sense thus weak , lost with their fears thus strong , Made senseless things
begin to do them wrong ; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch ; Some
sleeves , some hats , from yielders all things catch . 30 20 40 I led them on in this
...
Their sense thus weak , lost with their fears thus strong , Made senseless things
begin to do them wrong ; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch ; Some
sleeves , some hats , from yielders all things catch . 30 20 40 I led them on in this
...
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Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life ; he could not have ' scaped
sixpence a day : an the duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing
Pyramus , I'll be hanged ; he would have deserved it : sixpence a day in Pyramus
, or ...
Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life ; he could not have ' scaped
sixpence a day : an the duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing
Pyramus , I'll be hanged ; he would have deserved it : sixpence a day in Pyramus
, or ...
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| Title | Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's Dream Clarendon press series. English classics |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1879 |
| Length | 147 pages |
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