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Page xv
... called Robin Goodfellow . " It is true that Shakespeare has presented these purely English fairies in combination with ' the heroes and heroines of the mythic age of Greece , ' but indeed Theseus is Greek in name only . He is an English ...
... called Robin Goodfellow . " It is true that Shakespeare has presented these purely English fairies in combination with ' the heroes and heroines of the mythic age of Greece , ' but indeed Theseus is Greek in name only . He is an English ...
Page xvi
... called Diana , and her wandering court , and amongst us called the Phairie . " The Fairy Queen was therefore the same as Diana , whom Ovid ( Met . iii . 173 ) styles Titania . ' ( Fairy Mythology , p . 325 , note . ) In Chaucer's ...
... called Diana , and her wandering court , and amongst us called the Phairie . " The Fairy Queen was therefore the same as Diana , whom Ovid ( Met . iii . 173 ) styles Titania . ' ( Fairy Mythology , p . 325 , note . ) In Chaucer's ...
Page xvii
... called Puk . In Devonshire , pixy is the name for a fairy , and in Worcestershire we are told that the peasants are sometimes poake ledden , that is , misled by a mischievous spirit called Poake . ' Pouk - laden ' is also given in ...
... called Puk . In Devonshire , pixy is the name for a fairy , and in Worcestershire we are told that the peasants are sometimes poake ledden , that is , misled by a mischievous spirit called Poake . ' Pouk - laden ' is also given in ...
Page xix
... called with us bobgoblins , and Robin Goodfellows , that would , in those superstitious times , grind corn for a mess of milk , cut wood , or do any manner of drudgery work . . . And so likewise those which Mizaldus calls Ambulones ...
... called with us bobgoblins , and Robin Goodfellows , that would , in those superstitious times , grind corn for a mess of milk , cut wood , or do any manner of drudgery work . . . And so likewise those which Mizaldus calls Ambulones ...
Page xxi
... called The Merry conceited Humors of Bottom the Weaver , in which Theseus and his court are left out altogether , and nothing remains but the fairies and the clowns . It had perhaps been played privately after the suppression of the ...
... called The Merry conceited Humors of Bottom the Weaver , in which Theseus and his court are left out altogether , and nothing remains but the fairies and the clowns . It had perhaps been played privately after the suppression of the ...
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