Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Page iv
'The moneths of the year haue not yet gone about, wherin the Lord hath bowed
the heauens, and come down amongst vs with more tokens and earnests of his
wrath intended, then the agedst man of our land is able to recount of so small a ...
'The moneths of the year haue not yet gone about, wherin the Lord hath bowed
the heauens, and come down amongst vs with more tokens and earnests of his
wrath intended, then the agedst man of our land is able to recount of so small a ...
Page xiv
If there be an allegorical meaning in Oberon's words why does he suddenly drop
allegory and come back to reality when he says to Puck, “Fetch me that flower'?
No one pretends that this has an allegorical significance, and if so, how can it be
...
If there be an allegorical meaning in Oberon's words why does he suddenly drop
allegory and come back to reality when he says to Puck, “Fetch me that flower'?
No one pretends that this has an allegorical significance, and if so, how can it be
...
Page xvii
... by Robin Goodfellow, that they cannot come to the right way, no, though they
turn their caps.' The great source of information with regard to popular beliefs in
fairies and spirits is Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft, first published in
1584.
... by Robin Goodfellow, that they cannot come to the right way, no, though they
turn their caps.' The great source of information with regard to popular beliefs in
fairies and spirits is Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft, first published in
1584.
Page xix
... good-fellow the Frier, & Sisse the dairy-maide, to meete at hinch pinch, and
laugh not, when the good wife was a bed, why then, either the pottage was burnt
to next day in the pot, or the cheese would not curdle, or the butter would not
come, ...
... good-fellow the Frier, & Sisse the dairy-maide, to meete at hinch pinch, and
laugh not, when the good wife was a bed, why then, either the pottage was burnt
to next day in the pot, or the cheese would not curdle, or the butter would not
come, ...
Page xx
Dr. Farmer observed to Malone that in the lines spoken by Pyramus 'Approach,
ye furies fell,' &c., and in those of Thisbe's Speech, “O sisters three, Come, come
to me, With hands as pale as milk,” Shakespeare intended to ridicule a passage ...
Dr. Farmer observed to Malone that in the lines spoken by Pyramus 'Approach,
ye furies fell,' &c., and in those of Thisbe's Speech, “O sisters three, Come, come
to me, With hands as pale as milk,” Shakespeare intended to ridicule a passage ...
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| Title | Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's Dream Clarendon press series. English classics |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1879 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2017 |
| Length | 147 pages |
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