Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page v
... night , till S. Iames day , and two daies after togither most extreamly , all which notwithstanding , in the moneth of August there followed a faire haruest , but in the moneth of September fell great raines , which raised high waters ...
... night , till S. Iames day , and two daies after togither most extreamly , all which notwithstanding , in the moneth of August there followed a faire haruest , but in the moneth of September fell great raines , which raised high waters ...
Page vi
... Night's Dream ( p . 6 , ed . 1841 ) , from MS . 384 in the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford . These passages have been so often referred to as containing the prose version of Titania's speech that I have thought it best to give them at length ...
... Night's Dream ( p . 6 , ed . 1841 ) , from MS . 384 in the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford . These passages have been so often referred to as containing the prose version of Titania's speech that I have thought it best to give them at length ...
Page viii
... Night's Dream in the early part of 1598. He finds , in the speech of Theseus at the beginning of the fifth act , the line , One sees more devils than vast hell can hold , ' which , he says , ' is , plainly , a sarcasm on Lodge's ...
... Night's Dream in the early part of 1598. He finds , in the speech of Theseus at the beginning of the fifth act , the line , One sees more devils than vast hell can hold , ' which , he says , ' is , plainly , a sarcasm on Lodge's ...
Page ix
... Night's Dream may have been first acted at the marriage of some nobleman , and that , from the various compliments which are paid to Elizabeth , the performance . may have taken place when the Queen herself was present , } are no ...
... Night's Dream may have been first acted at the marriage of some nobleman , and that , from the various compliments which are paid to Elizabeth , the performance . may have taken place when the Queen herself was present , } are no ...
Page x
... Night's Dream ; but as this marriage did not take place till 1598 , and was then kept secret in order to avoid the Queen's displeasure , Mr. Massey supposes that the play was written some time before , when it was thought probable that ...
... Night's Dream ; but as this marriage did not take place till 1598 , and was then kept secret in order to avoid the Queen's displeasure , Mr. Massey supposes that the play was written some time before , when it was thought probable that ...
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